With all apologies to Ted Turner, more errata in BFA
Oy vey! (hope I spelled that right . . .)
Good friend and transformation guru Shane Deichman of Joint Forces Command caught two more errata in PNM.
First one hurts, given how many times I've watched "Gettsburg" the movie.
Page 19: ". . .so operations like Colonel Picket's charge at Gettyburg were tantamount to suicide runs."That would be "Major General Pickett" with two t's.
That one hurts, and it's totally my fault. That's less than 30 seconds to check on Google, but for some reason I didn't get that done. Okay, I know why I didn't get it done: I didn't think it was wrong. For whatever reason, "Col. Picket" just sticks in my head as correct. And when you think you're right, you don't feel the need to check. It's my modern bias. Thinking about a three-star leading men personally into battle just strikes me as incongruous, so I just assumed the logical rank of someone like that would be a colonel. Duh! I know.
Another one Shane finds falls on . . .
Page 68: "It all starts with the Pentagon's recognizing its role . . ."It should read ". . . with the Pentagon . . ."
That's just my weird vernacular, I will confess. To me, that possessive makes perfect sense, although grammatically it's wrong
I also heard from my blog proofer Sean Meade that the mistake on Page 6 ("Office of New Assessment") that I already confessed in the blog was indeed already there in the Uncorrected Proof. That means Mark and I submitted it in that way, and THEN failed to catch it when we edited the Proof. I blame myself on that one. That should have just jumped out at me given all these years of interacting with ONA.
I know, I know. These are nits and typos. The points and analysis remain valid. It just gnaws at the perfectionist in me. Frankly, I should have spent the summer pouring over the text repeatedly like I did with PNM, but the move killed that possibility, and I'm glad we made the move, so this was the price to be paid.
I might have still tried to make such an effort ALONG with the move, but I don't think I could have stay married, so I will suffer all such slings and arrows knowing that the woman is worth it.