History Lesson 101

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Bob, errors are errors and, big or small, intentional or unintentional, they need 
to be corrected.  How many other errors have crept into the Arrow?  I don't 
know, but when we do find them we should admit to them and correct them.

Jerry Kay, Portsmouth, Virginia

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>Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 10:05:14 -0700 (PDT)

>From: NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>  

>Subject: History Lesson 101   

>To: N&W Railway <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>

>

>   Hopefully we have all learned a little bit about     

>   World War II (and even WW1) history today from an    

>   unintentional error in writing. Having occasionally  

>   edited and proofread railroad newsletters, they are  

>   easy to slip by. Let's not throw out the baby with   

>   the bathwater here over an obvious and unintentional 

>   error.                                               

>                                                        

>   Let us give praise and thanks for the fine job the   

>   Arrow editor undertakes and those in similar         

>   positions around the country, if not the world also  

>   perform for those who love to read their every word  

>   and occasionally pounce on the occasional mis-step   

>   or two. Until you have walked in that person's shoes 

>   be careful what suggest. It might next be YOU in the 

>   hot seat. Having deadlines for your so-called        

>   "fun/volunteer" job, all the while with the kids     

>   screaming in the next room, Mom undergoing medical   

>   treatment and your "real Monday-Friday boss",        

>   breathing down your backside over a real deadline.   

>                                                        

>   Let's play nice and be considerate of those who do   

>   the thankless tasks we either are unable or          

>   unwilling to perform.                                

>                                                        

>   True, errors creep in. Look at your local daily      

>   newspapers and you can find them, and these are from 

>   professionally trained people making many thousands  

>   of dollars to ensure they don't happen.              

>                                                        

>   Now, if someone starts talking about ........ let's  

>   say the Class J locomotives and says they were       

>   numbered 758 to 882 and there were 125 of them built 

>   by the Roanoke shops, which  are in West             

>   Podunckadunk, Kansas during the Franco-Prussian War  

>   back in the 19th Century, that might be another      

>   story. Take them out to the nearest cleaners and     

>   educate them.                                        

>                                                        

>   'nuff ced.                                           

>                                                        

>   Bob Cohen                                            

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