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 Greetings! You are reading an article from The Mudville Gazette. To reach the front page, with all the latest news and views, click the logo above or "main" below. Thanks for stopping by! July 30, 2004 Reporting?By Greyhawk"I'm John Kerry, and I'm reporting for duty."
Great. For now your duty is to sit there and let readers click you. Posted by Greyhawk / July 30, 2004 11:24 PM | Permalink 1 TrackBackBe sure and go to the Mudville Gazette and click the same Kerry picture there. Discover what reporting for duty really means ...... Read More 10 Comments |
November 26, 2010America@war [Greyhawk]
I think anyone who's ever pondered the "comment" option - once only available on blogs and bulletin boards, now ubiquitous on almost any web site - will appreciate this:
The so-called faculty of writing is not so much a faculty of writing as it is a faculty of thinking. When a man says, "I have an idea but I can't express it"; that man hasn't an idea but merely a vague feeling. If a man has a feeling of that kind, and will sit down for a half an hour and persistently try to put into writing what he feels, the probabilities are at least 90 percent that he will either be able to record it, or else realize that he has no idea at all. In either case, he will do himself a benefit. That's wisdom from the past, captured for posterity at the US Naval Institute, shared via the web on the institute's 137th anniversary. From their about page:
"The Naval Institute has three core activities," among them, History and Preservation: The Naval Institute also has recently introduced Americans at War, a living history of Americans at war in their own words and from their own experiences. These 90-second vignettes convey powerful stories of inspiration, pride, and patriotism. Take a look at the collection, and you'll see it's not limited to accounts from those who served on ships at sea, members of the other branches are well-represented. I'm fortunate to have met USNI's Mary Ripley, she's responsible for the institute's oral history program (and she's the daughter of the late John Ripley, whose story is told here). She also deserves much credit for their blog. ("We're not the Navy nor any government agency. Blog and comment freely.") We met at a milblog conference - Mary knew (and I would come to realize) that milbloggers are the 21st-century version of exactly what the US Naval Institute is all about. Once that light bulb came on in my head, I mentioned a vague idea for a project to her - milblogs as the 21st century oral history that they are. "Put that in writing," she said (of course - see first paragraph above!) - and here's part of the result. Shortly after the first tent was pitched by the American military in Iraq a wire was connected to a computer therein, and the internet was available to a generation of Americans at war - many of whom had grown up online. From that point on, at any given moment, somewhere in Iraq a Soldier, Sailor, Airman or Marine was at a keyboard sharing the events of his or her day with the folks back home. While most would simply fire off an email, others took advantage of the (then) relatively new online blogging platforms to post their thoughts and experiences for the entire world to see. The milblog was born - and from that moment to this stories detailing everything from the most mundane aspects of camp life to intense combat action (often described within hours of the event) have been available on the web... And et cetera - but since you're reading this on a milblog, you probably knew that. And you know that milblogs aren't just blogs written by troops at war, that many friends, family members, and supporters likewise documented their story of America at war online in near-real time, as those stories developed. The diversity in membership of that group is broad, the one thing we all have in common is the impulse to make sense of the seemingly senseless, and communicate the tale - for each of us that impulse was strong enough to overcome whatever barriers prevent the vast majority of people from doing the same. Everyone at some point has some vague idea they believe should be shared - we were the people who, from some combination of internal and external urging, found and spent those many half hours persistently trying to write it down. But where will all that be in another 137 years? Or five or ten, for that matter. That's something I've asked myself since at least 2004 - when I wrote this:
Membership in the ghost battalion has grown in the years since, and an ever growing majority of those abandoned-but-still-standing sites are vanishing. Have you checked out Lt Smash's site lately? How about Sgt Hook's? If you're a long-time milblog reader you know the first widely-read milblog from Operation Iraq Freedom and the first widely-read milblog from Afghanistan are both gone from the web. If you're a relative newcomer to this world you may never even have heard of them - or the dozens upon dozens of others who carried forth the standard they set down. If you have a vague notion that something should be done about that, (a notion I've heard expressed more than once...) then you and I and the good folks at the US Naval Institute are in agreement. Preserving the history documented by the milbloggers is just one of the goals of the milblog project, the once-vague idea that we're now making real. And it's a big idea, if I say so myself - too big to explain in one simple blog post, so stand by for more. Likewise, it's too big a task to be accomplished by just one person. So if you're a milblogger (and exactly what is a milblogger? is a topic for much further discussion on its own) I'm asking for your help. All I'll really need is just a little bit (maybe just one or two of those half hours...) of your time, and your willingness to tell the tale. We've already made history, it's time to save it. (More to follow...) Posted 4:02 PM | Permalink |
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Thanks for the link. I am not voting for him. He changes his story so often. He may have saved a life but who in the military does not save a buddy when in danger? The real heros are those who stay the course, those who suffer injury, and those that give the ultimate sacrifice. I really think he will cut and run from Iraq and just let that nation sink. If you get a chance, read my blog. Kerry wants Osama to be tried in 3 states if we catch him. Now that will surely increase our national security.
* The DemLibs even got BEN AFFLECK from their Hollywood Lefty propaganda film PEARL HARBOR, proving that HANDSOME AMERICAN FASCISTS ARE HUMANISTS, EMOTIONALISTS, AND FOR SOCIALISM AND SOCIALIST UTOPIA TOO [hahhahahhahhahahha], as humanist and reasonable as the Japanese whom planned and attacked PH for Empire back in 1941. And there's well-known Hollywood Socialist Ben Stiller and espec MIchael Moore, the latter of whom is DEMANDING REPUBLICAN DUBYA BE TRIED FOR MURDER AS PER 9-11, DEAD AMERICANS IN THE ME, AND FOR CONSPIRACY WITH SADDAM AND OSAMA, etc. WHILE NOT ENGAGING IN CONSPIRACY WITH SADDAM AND OSAMA, ETC ERGO PROVING THE CLINTONS AND CLINTON-LED DEMLIBS ARE NOT TRYING TO DISCREDIT THE GOP AND AMERICA, BUT ARE, AND WHILE TAKING CREDIT FOR REPUBLICAN-RIGHTIST ACHIEVEMENTS AND USURPING REPUBLICAN-RIGHTIST METHODISMS, I.E. ANTI-FASCIST FASCISTS FOR COMMUNISM.
EVERY SPEAKER at this Convention has directly andor indirectly affirmed that the New Leftism-Socialism = Republicanism-Rightism, IF ONLY OVERTLY, AESTHETICALLY OR POLITICALLY CORRECTLY. ALL the Clintons and Kerry, etal. did was to affirm and verify, AGAIN for the Nth time, that Clintonian Unitarianism for Socialism DOES EXIST, and that the DemLIbs and Kerry are offering an ANTI-REPUBLICAN/RIGHTIST REPUBLICAN-RIGHTIST AGENDA AND ELECTION PLATFORM wid MINUTAE DIFFERENCES, IF ANY! If as per Clintonism
"CENTRISM" 9-11 and the US-led WOT = INTERNATIONAL WAR AMONGST SOCIALIST NATIONS, i.e. EXTERNAL INTER-SOCIALIST [NATION/STATE/SOCIETY]CONFLICT, then Kerry-Bush and those to come = INTERNAL, INTRA-SOCIALIST CONFLICT, BETWEEN [PRE-COMMUNIST AMERIKA's] AMERICAN SOCIALIST POLITICAL FRACTIONS! The Clinton view = Mainstream/Middle America is already, majorially or predominantly, PER SE COMMUNIST AND LEFT-BASED SOCIALIST, with any, each, and all Americans and American Leftists, regardless of belief, being versions of the successful GOP-RIGHT WHILE STILL BEING LEFTIST COMMUNIST OR LEFTIST-SOCIALIST! Where the WOT is concerned, any Kerry admin can be summed up as a PC, Left-disguised/deniable JIMMY CARTER-STYLE NATIONAL AND GEOPOLITICAL DEBACLE and CATASTROPHE, with nuclearized/WMD-armed, victorious or seemingly unstoppable Radical Islam rampaging over American milfors andor well-meaning but incompetent, WEAK, ERROR(S)-PRONE policies! The Clinton agenda = Anti-AMerican agenda = Communist agenda = SUCCESSFUL AMERICA AND THE SUCCESSFUL GOP-RIGHT MUST BE DISCREDITED OR POLITICALLY DESTROYED, LOCALLY-NATIONALLY-INTERNATIONALLY-GLOBALLY, NO MATTER WHOM [NON-CLINTON] DEMOCRAT OR REPUBLICAN IS IN THE WHITE HOUSE! 2015-2020 = IFF the Clintons FAIL to convert America unto Socialism, the Left's last desperate option for power is for the FAILED LEFT TO WAGE DE FACTO GLOBAL NUCLEAR WAR AGAINST AMERICA, OSTENSIBLY AGAINST ALLEGED AMERICA "IMPERIALISM" AND BELLICOSITY, IN REALITY TO SAVE THE CLINTONS AND FORCIBLY DESTROY AMERICAN POWER BEFORE THE LATTER GETS TOO STRONG FOR ANYONE TO STOP, ala "Better for Failed Communism and Leftism to rule over a Poor or Destroyed World, THAN NEVER RULE THE WORLD AT ALL"! THE TIME TO STOP THE FIFTH COLUMNIST, COMMUNIST, CRIMINAL, TRAITOR, ANTI-AMERICAN AMERICAN PRO-RUSSIA-CHINA CLINTONS, AND TO SAVE AMERICA, WAS YESTERDAY - MONTHS, YEARS AND DECADES AGO - I URGE ALL LOYAL AMERICAN PATRIOTS TO PREP AND ARM FOR BOTH GENERAL AND NUCLEAR WAR, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO CIVIL WAR, OR ARMED UPRISING, OR ARMED COMMUNIST INVASION DISGUISED AS "POLICE ACTION/PEACEKEEPING" ON AMERICAN SOIL! THE CLINTONS AND CLINTON LEFT HAVE NO QUALMS ABOUT BETRAYING OR DESTROYING THEIR OWN AMERICAN LEFT, OR KILLING THOUSANDS OR MILLIONS OF INNOCENT FELLOW AMERICANS, IFF IT MEANS SOCIALIST POWER, GLOBAL COMMUNIST-SOCIALIST EMPIRE, AND THE FINAL PERMANENT VICTORY OF MARXISM-COMMUNISM, BY ANY, EACH, AND ALL, LAWFUL AND UNLAWFUL, MEANS NECESSARY! NO matter the casualties suffered overseas, DO NOT DOUBT THAT THE REAL BATTLEFIELD IS AND WILL BE AMERICA ITSELF, BESIDES NORAM/CANUSA! "ISLAMOFASCISM" is just the Left's PC disguise, MISINFORMATION-DISINFORMATION for politically deniable ISLAMIST MERCERNARIES ACTING ON BEHALF OF COMMUNIST RUSSIA-CHINA AND ANTI-US COLLUSORY WEAK STATES WHOSE SOCIALISM CAN LONGER BE LOCALLY OR ECONOMICALLY "JUSTIFIED", THUS NEED AMERICA RESOURCES FOR THEMSELVES, IF ONLY FOR SIMPLE NATIONAL SURVIVAL, UNDER FAILED AND FAILING SOCIALISM - as soon as America becomes Communist America and under OWG, that day Radical Islam will become as much WALKING GULAG MEAT LIKE THE REST OF THE SOON-TO-BE FORMER "FREE WORLD" AND THE WEST!
At least Kerry reported for duty...
His salute could use some work though.
He's reporting for duty, but for how long? Longer than the four months of Vietnam?
Retread,
That was my thought:
"Reporting for duty? Good, he'll be out of here in four months."
-BF
What a limp wristed mean spirited toad.
joe,
Obama is/was a Socialist. As in member of the Party.
The Democratic future is socialist? OK.
You are dismissed Lt. Kerry.
We've got the bastards on the run..
JUST GOT THIS FROM A PINKO PAL. ALL THEY CAN SAY IS THAT WE'RE LYING REPUBLICANS. WELL IT'S TIME TO SHOW BASTARDS ON
SEPTEMBER TWELFTH 2004
JOIN THOUSANDS OF VIETNAM VETERANS AND SUPPORTERS WHO WILL GATHER TO TELL THE TRUTH ABOUT JOHN KERRY.
MAYBE THEY CAN CALL A FEW VETERANS LIARS, BUT WHAT WILL THEY CALL THOUSANDS OF US?
BE THERE!
CHANGE HISTORY!
RIGHT THE WRONG THAT WAS DONE TO US BY JOHN KERRY AND HIS NEOCOMS!
HOPING TO SEE YOU ALL THERE,
ADRIAN
Dear Joseph,
I'm interrupting John Kerry's dispatches from the road to tell you about something that will make you angry, but which is important for you to hear.
We knew it was coming: the Bush campaign and several allied right-wing groups are using August to launch a vicious smear attack against John Kerry. They think we're vulnerable this month because while George Bush is still able to raise money for attack ads, Kerry had to stop fundraising at the Democratic convention last week. They're taking this opportunity to go for the jugular.
We need you to join us in this fight today by supporting the Democratic Party.
https://www.democrats.org/support/kerry.html
The worst of the current wave of attacks is coming from a Republican-funded group called "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth." (I'll call them by a more accurate name: Swift Boat Veterans for Bush.) ...
http://pep.typepad.com/public_enquiry_project/2004/08/weve_got_the_ba.html