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    STUCK IN CYBERSPACE

    Jul 24, 2018 4 minutes

    Editor’s note: The CWT team recently discovered that cwtletters@historynet.com had not been configured to send your comments to our inboxes. When that was fixed, 160 e-mails dating to 2016 poured into our computers. I apologize to everyone who wrote in during that time, and I am thrilled that we now receive your thoughtful comments. Some of the “misplaced” e-mails are printed below.

    NOT POSSIBLE

    As an employee of the National Archives I feel compelled to point out an error you made regarding my agency in the February 2017 issue. In your “Details” column about the frequently misidentified

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