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[Walt's Daughter]

I sent this email to the editor of WWII mag last night and this morning I received a reply.

 

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Dear WWII Magazine:

 

I am interested in submitting a brief history of my father's unit, the 540th Combat Engineers, to your magazine and am requesting some guidelines as far as length, etc. I have a rough idea after looking over such sections as Command, but need to need to know if you have any other requirements.

 

Thank you for your time,

Marion J Chard

Proud Daughter of Walter (Monday) Poniedzialek

VI Corps, 540th Combat Engineer WWII

http://www.6thcorpscombatengineers.com

Essayons!

 

Dear Ms. Chard,

Thank you for your letter to World War II. I would be very happy to see something on the 540th and I think that "Commands" would be just the place to run it. I have attached a copy of our editorial guidelines for your review. You should try to keep the story to around 1,500 words as it will need to fit on one page. Thank you for your interest and I look forward to seeing your submission.

Regards,

Chris Anderson

Editor

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As you can well imagine, this has inspired me even more and as of this afternoon, I have already covered the time period to Jan 1945.

 

Lee is going to proof-read my article and I also plan on sending a copy to my friend, Michael at the Army Corps of Engineers. I trust both to give me their unbiased and professional opinions before wisking this out in an envelope to the editor.

 

Well, back to the family room. If I'm sitting here writing, then guess what I'm NOT doing?