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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 7, 2005 Open PostBy Greyhawk And don't miss this one from Mark Steyn. Posted by Greyhawk / July 7, 2005 8:13 PM | Permalink 25 TrackBacksMy blog has a new URL....Well, it seems after my unwilling departure from the normal world and into the Twilight Zone...or 10th Circle of Hell as I prefer to refer to it, my blog is up and running again. I am so sick of web hosts!!! Think I'm getting a... Read More My heart aches for Britains today. Almost 4 years ago, we were in your shoes. And it's terrible. Read More This story has not been reported by BBC World Service. Neither has the US media picked it up so far as I can tell. However, STRATFOR has picked up on it and published (read it below) what reflects rumors that are now going around in the intelligence ... Read More Pentagon denies medically abusing detainees WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military on Thursday denied charges that health workers were broadly complicit in alleged abuse of terrorism suspects by the military in Cuba, Iraq and Afghanistan. The charges... Read More The Philippine Army is pledging neutrality in the controversy involving President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. There are accusations she was trying to fix the last Philippine Presdidential election and there have been protests asking for Arroyo's resignati... Read More I hate to trivialize the dastardly deed committed today in London by those terrorist cowards, but I can't help but wonder what Tony Blair was thinking when making his statement to the press: "It is particularly barbaric that this... Read More We at Point Five thought it would be instructive to invite five different voices of moderation from the Muslim community to denounce the bombings in London. Here are their responses: Read More Some words of Sir Winston Churchill recalled today. Read More Well I was looking for reactions to the London bombing today around the blogs, and I thought to myself 'I wonder how long before someone says fighting the terrorists in Iraq rather than at home is a false rationale.' How long did it take? About a n... Read More Racial profiling is such a common sense tool for use against terrorism that it is sad it is tarred by it's use by racist police. Read More In a must-read interview, Kenyan economist James Shikwati told Der Spiegel newspaper that Western aid is destroying Africa and urges nations to stop. The Der Spiegel reporter sounded completely stunned. Read More We here at Stop The ACLU want to express our heartfelt sympathy and solidarity with Great Britain. It is an absolute tragedy what happened to them this morning. Our prayers are with the families of those who were lost. Britain have always stood b... Read More The attacks in London I had mentioned briefly this morning were, indeed, terrorist bombings. Whether these were planted or suicide bombings is still being determined. The mass transit system was the target, and the attack was timed to do the Read More For all three of you who have been reading my very occassional posts here, you may recall my post-election ... Read More How would you like to have your nation be the standard to which other nations make comparisons how they WON'T react to attacks. How would you like it to be known as the ones who folded and caved to the enemies' demands in the face of one attack? Read More Remember, today’s tragic event was not an attack against G8 attendees -- it was a murderous attack against good, hard working Brits. It was an attack against a peaceful Thursday morning. It was an attack against a celebratory announcement of Ol... Read More Polipundit links to some polling data that shows most Americans can’t name the justices of the Supreme Court. The national survey of 1,000 adults found that nearly two-thirds of Americans couldn’t name a single current U.S. Supreme Court just... Read More Remember, today’s tragic event was not an attack against G8 attendees -- it was a murderous attack against good, hard working Brits. It was an attack against a peaceful Thursday morning. It was an attack against a celebratory announcement of Ol... Read More On the one hand, we knew it was coming-- Read More I've created a new webring. If you would like to join, look for the webring logo on the side bar. Once you have joined you will be given instructions for placing the code on your blog or website. Read More Get Ready. A new report is going to be adding fuel to the fire of liberals against the military. This new information makes what has been reported thus far seem (almost) tame. Starting at the beginning, last month the Air Force New Service reported: 6... Read More One of the major disconnects between the left and the right these days is the war on terror. Most of the left doesn't get it, most of the right does from my point of view. Duncan Black writing as that well known Atrios recently attacked the Young Repub... Read More Greyhawk had a great post yesterday about a glimpse or two of the Ghost of Churchill. Mmmm. Me? I had more visions of the ghost of “Edward Longshanks” and what his plan would be right now for the English people. It would be a hoot to see ... Read More For anyone in the D.C. area they are calling on people to come out and join them TODAY!!! From BillF at Free Republic: "We absolutely must keep the pressure on Code Pink and keep showing the wounded soldiers at Walter Reed that Code Pink doesn't spe... Read More The usual gang of leftists and Bush-haters have come out of the woodwork to blame the London bombings on Bush and Blair and our nation's involvement in Iraq. Very few note that the bombers themselves mentioned Afghanistan as well. Why Read More 5 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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Still not sure how to add to Open Post...can you add this one London
Thanks.
MDG
Go here here for a reply to the terrorists in London today:
http://www.lnreview.co.uk/news/005167.php
Now I want to know why Bolton is not confirmed. The US does not have a UN representative with which to vote our condolences at the UN. Shame on the Democrats for the obstruction which has led to this.
jp
http://americansforfreedom.blogspot.com
Northeast Intelligence Network is saying one of the bombers was one of the detainees recently released from GITMO. Could this be true? I would think the planning for the attack would have begun way before the release, although that doesn't mean one of them couldn't have participated.
I apologize for the double-tap in the open post (Japan Maintains...).