The Graybeards - KWVA - Korean War Veterans Association

BUSINESS
EDITORIAL GUIDELINES
When Your Submissions Arrive At 152
Sky View Drive, Rocky Hill, CT 06067…
In this month’s installment, we will
look at what happens to a submission
when it arrives.
The:
• mail delivery technician deposits the
mail in our mail receptacle
• editor or the editor’s assistant, i.e., the
editor’s wife, retrieves the mail
• editor writes on the missive containment
vessel (MCV) (aka the envelope) the
date received
• editor opens the MCV and examines
the contents
• editor determines into which category—if
any—the contents best fit, e.g.,
“Chapter News,” “Feedback,” “Recon,”
“Complaints”¹ (The editor discards immediately
any complaints. JUST KID-
DING!)
• editor files the incoming MCVs into
the appropriate file in a LILO format
(LILO = Last In, Last Out)***
• editor schedules it for publication ²
NOTE: There are factors which preclude
me from printing everything immediately.
I will explain these factors in a
future issue.
¹ Believe it or not, there is material that
comes in that does not fit into any category.
In fact, some of it is downright inane.
(See the definition of “Inane” below.) That
is why I keep an industrial-sized shredder
next to my desk.
² The schedule perplexes a lot of people
who submit material. For example, I
received a “fan letter” recently from a
clearly frustrated member which reads,
and I quote:
“I sent this original letter in February
2006. I am very disappointed you didn’t
publish it yet. Can you let me know the reason
why? I would appreciate a response.”
Two things:
1) I cannot respond individually to
every such request. Time simply does not
allow me to do so.
2) This is my response to the writer,
and by extension, to all our readers. It
sometimes takes months to get everything
into The Graybeards. Eventually, almost
everything that is fit to print gets in. All I
can ask is that submitters exercise
patience.
I can empathize with this individual—
and with everyone else who expresses
impatience. I recently received a copy of a
magazine in which appeared an article I
submitted four years ago. I had forgotten I
ever sent it. Hopefully, that will not be the
case with any of you. My goal is to publish
everything that is fit to print—and
anything that is unfit to print if we have
space left over (which I hope is never the
case).
*** Last In, Last Out means that material
that is in the appropriate file already
has top priority. There are exceptions (See
NOTE above)
INANE = an anonymous person who
keeps sending criticisms of articles and
photos without identifying him/herself.
For example, his/her latest message, written
on the back of a postcard, is addressed
to “Editors (Sound Off Section) (please
print). (We don’t have a “Sound Off” section,
incidentally.) It is signed with a bogus
name. It is not the first such request I have
received from this “mystery man/woman.”
How do I know it’s the same person?
I am not a detective, but when I see
multiple unsigned submissions from the
same P.O. Box—which I suspect is a fake
address (P.O. Box 1058, New Hyde Park,
NY 11040, if anyone is interested), and
postmarked from Queens, NY, I get the
feeling that someone is either too timid to
sign his/her name or playing games. In
either case, his/her comments will never
be published in The Graybeards. I do not
publish material that is submitted anonymously.
It is exactly this type of material
that keeps my industrial-strength shredder
fed.
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CONTRIBUTOR LOCATION CONTRIBUTOR
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Banker, Curtis J.
Block, Richard M.
Bonaiuto, Robert V.
M/S Joseph H. Bonaiuto, Sr. &
Airman 3C Richard L. Bonaiuto
Bosch, Raymond
Caro, Arthur
Farnan, Ben
Gabrynowicz, Elisabeth
Jack H. Newman
Hansen, Julius G.
Hill, John
NY
IL
CT
OH
CA
NY
VA
VA
NC
Johnson, Linden G.
Knutstad, Odd
Those who did not make it home
Lanier, Emmett
SFC George L. Cottman, USA (MD)
Lomax, William F.
Loop, Lloyd M.
Maddox, Merritt L.
Maloy, Ted
Malloy, Jack
Mercier, Eugene
Moreland, Henry L.
GA
NJ
MD
NC
NY
TX
NY
NH
FL
Palla, Donald J.
IN
Schrader, Eugene A.
IL
Pfc Eugene Foss, 1st Cav. KIA Korea
Toepfer, Shirley Buske
IL
Tommie, Frankie J.
NM
Waite, John
NJ
Waltner, Richard H.
MT
Williams, Charles
IL
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