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November 30 2005 Newsletter Advisory
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Table of Contents
1. This Mailing List
2. KWP website upgrades status
3. Email contact | Phone | Address information
4. Funding for the Korean War Project is an urgent issue!
5. Who can join or donate?
6. Newsletter topics
7. Membership
8. Our long term goals, still the same.
Thank you to all who post messages, write or call.
Special thanks go out to all of our financial supporters.
Without your support this would not be possible.
All our donors may be viewed from the Membership page,
see topic 7. Do see or list of original donor/members as
well as the organizations that make this all possible.
Hal and Ted Barker
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1. This Mailing List (going to 35,500 + persons)
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We began this newsletter mailing in December of 1998.
This list is a private list for our visitors and members.
A person may join or leave the list at will. It is compiled
from our Guest book and is for public service messages of
general interest to veterans and families.
To join or leave the list: email Ted Barker tbarker@kwp.org
with Subscribe or Unsubscribe in the subject line.
The semi-automated join or leave tool will soon be back
online so folks may join or leave at anytime they choose
without deleting their entry for the list.
Consider forwarding the Newsletter to your friends. Word of
mouth is how we have grown over the years.
Thanks for being part of the Korean War Project family.
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2. KWP website upgrades status
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Our October newsletter notified our users that immediately
the move to upgrade the equipment to run the site would
commence.
Most of you have seen the construction dust created. It shall
continue for a bit longer as more of the hardware and software
is configured.
Expect some more inability to reach the site as we find and
repair the broken parts that the upgrade has caused.
We rebuilt two 5 year old computers to act as servers and only
one is operative at this juncture. Hopes are that the lingering
issues with new Microsoft Operating System software will be
resolved shortly.
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3. Email contact | Phone | Address information
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We continue to urge folks to update us with their contact
information. For email updates just contact Ted by email.
You may choose to post a new Looking For or Guestbook message
with contact information as well.
See this link and do pass it along to others who may have
mentioned that no messages have been inbound from Ted or Hal
via the site or newsletter.
Spam filters, full mailboxes or incomplete typing of email
addresses are the most frequent reasons for non-delivery.
See this link for more on that subject:
https://www.koreanwar.org/html/email_information.html
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4. Funding for the Korean War Project is an urgent issue!
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Once again our Pledge Drive is in action. Donor fatigue
for nonprofits is becoming a huge issue after the tsumami
and the summer of hurricanes or floods.
The Korean War Project is no exception and also suffers from
attrition by member/donors who have passed away. Many of our
former donors no longer can assist due to retirement and/or
health related issues.
The notice posted on the site and often iterated in the
newsletters and by surface mail is our only way to keep
this small nonprofit in existence.
Our plea is directed to lapsed donors and especially to
those of you who have never participated. "We NEED all of you!"
Simply put, if you find the website beneficial, help out.
Many of our pals notice the 35,000 figure for the newsletter
distribution and have said to me,"if each user would
donate $1.00 each.." Well, you get the drift.
"We fly by the seat of the pants" is our motto. It has been
thus since start up back in 1995. Our financials are posted
by the IRS at www.guidestar.com and anyone may examine them online.
Thanks for listening.
Ted Barker
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5. Who can join or donate?
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This question is posed just about every day. The quick answer
is: anyone who finds value in our work. Membership is actually
an honorary title that was requested by many donors dating to 1999.
We use the term as a way to thank all those who have donated or
sponsored the site.
Some site visitors like to sponsor unit pages or as living tributes
to those who have passed away. Some donors direct tributes to
special family members. We do encourage this practice.
The KWP stopped accepting advertisements years ago as only three
companies or organizations took part in that campaign.
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6. Newsletter topics
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Bookstore | Veteran Benefits | Looking For | Reunions
Submissions by our web visitors are the core for 90% of our
newsletters. We would love to see more from Navy, UN Allies,
families, Coast Guard, etc.
Each topic can be related to a section on the site navigation
bars. All the older versions of our newsletters may be found
at this link: https://www.koreanwar.org/html/newsletter_archive.html
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8. Our long term goals, still the same.
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See this link: https://www.koreanwar.orgnonprofit1.htm
We created these goals back in 1996 when asked what the KWP
was all about. Most of them have not been achieved and we
both wish it was otherwise. With that said, it is satisfying
to know that the glimmer of an idea hatched back in 1993
has come this far.
Thanks once again to each and every person who participates.
The sharing of information represented here is your doing.
Hal and Ted Barker
Korean War Project
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