Incorrect grammar

Dear Editor,

Part of an editor’s job is to make corrections, not incorrections. My open letter to Sam Fleischner, which ran on Feb. 24, should have contained the following sentence as submitted, here quoted in part: “…he fondly speaks of being preserving of Old Wes – presumably as preserving as…” An editor changed it to read “…he fondly speaks of preserving Old Wes – presumably as preserving as…” That change is syntactically incorrect. My prose is already politically incorrect. Isn’t that bad enough?