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26 TrackBacksA broken fax machine in DNC headquarters delayed Democrat talking points receipients from "formulating their own opinions" on the John Roberts nomination last night. The delay gave Republican spokespeople a slight edge in the opening salvo of what pr... Read More My original plan was to write and post this last night. Some news event popped up that prevented that. Again, unless otherwise noted the quotes are from the charities web site. With that said, here is some information on The Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fun... Read More In 1985, the ACLU learned of an alleged plan by the CIA to engineer Qaddafi’s overthrow. Outraged, they put together a “strenuous” public protest against this proposed action. Read More It was tempting to give Howard Dean today's award but I'm certain he'll back in the future. Instead today's award goes to Joliet Montana resident Jesse Lee Leggett, 31 for breaking into a female friend's home. What was he trying to steal? Read More The van which the AIF sniper team used was modified to conceal the shooters presence and to make it easier to evade capture. With the absence of the rear window and the attachment of the window screen the cameraman/spotter and sniper were able to con... Read More Over on one of my favorite blog hangouts, Right Thinking Girl, there was a post rhetorically questioning the response to a nuke going off in the US as part of the WoT. Read More Take a look at “The Grapevine” over at Fox News today, and you just may find a few very disturbing tidbits – like these... Ever since the movie came out, people have been talking about whether “War of the Worlds” is s... Read More An LA Times hit piece with Rove and the President as targets containes a sentence that somehow got by the editors, and offers us all a laugh. Read More I can see your point, Jake. I just can’t agree that it would be a good thing. Not that I dispute the benefits you cite, but because of all the other changes that would have to accompany institution of a draft. Read More I am becoming more and more convinced, that New Yorkers enjoy having incompetent Senators. Look at Schumer, if the President says that he likes chocolate cake, Schumer will be on national television stating why he thinks chocolate cake is bad for Ame... Read More Today's dose of NIF - News, Interesting & Funny ... It is totally Wednesday. Read More ouFirst things, first..........Gotcha! You know, with the Georgia thing..........Ok, Nevermind. Reuters tells us that there has been an arrest made in the failed grenade attack on President Bush. Dateline -- Atlanter Tblisi, GeorgiaPolice raided a prop... Read More In what many political pundits are calling a brilliant tactical maneuver, the Republican Party is reportedly circulating information that conservative Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts can trace his bloodlines back to the early Gallic peoples. Very... Read More Am I glad that's over! No, not my time away, that could have gone on forever with Mrs. Dadmanly, Jilly Bean, Spud, and Little Manly. I'm glad the Odyssey of my return has finally ended. Read More These photos were sent to me unattributed. Ostensibly, they show the aftermath of the PFC shot in the video that has gone around the Internet recently. The video shows PFC Stephen Tschiderer, a medic with E Troop, 101st “Saber” Cavalry Di... Read More Schumer’s Law: The excellence of Bush’s nominee(s) will be directly proportional to left-wing outrage and bile. Michelle Malkin has an extensive Roberts roundup here. MoveOn.org has already spit out the boilerplate (via GOP Bloggers): I... Read More Okay, this was scary. I live in a nondescript, unincorporated little town that no one has ever heard of, in a state about which few people care (unless they live here). That's why I've been so far able to convince Read More During a joint news conference on 19 July, Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld thanks Polish Minister of Defense Jerzy Szmajdzinski for his country's support and leadership in the global war on terror. For those of you keeping score at home, the line sc... Read More Sounds to me like the "Warrior Ethos" is no different the "Business Ethos"... Show me the money! I have been saying this since October of 2004 and finally, LTG Franklin Hagenback agrees with me. Read More Take a few minutes and head over to Afghan Lord's blog. He's been receiving death threats and when he traced the IP, he discovered it came from a BBC IP in Kabul, read that here. He's been in discussions with the BBC regarding that which you c Read More White House photo by Eric Draper This has been a great day for those of us who are accused of being idealists. The President did what he promised to do. He nominated a man who appears to take the... Read More Brent Bozell is exactly right in talking about the difference in treatment of the book by Edward Klein on Hillary Clinton and the book say by Kitty Kelly on Nancy Reagan. Read More Oh my. It's an outrage! The leftist organizations that have been pegged as domestic terror organizations and are being defended by the ACLU have their little designer panties in a bunch about the FBI pegging them as domestic terror organizations. Em... Read More Have you ever wondered what happened to that Islamist nut case who ineptly tried to bring down a jet liner by using a bomb in his shoe? He failed, of course, being overwhelmed by passengers while he tried to light the fuse. The Guardian, a UK paper,... Read More I was very pleased to the responses I got on the post, What am I? As I expected I got allot of varying answers, and I was pleased to see that very few of you tried to convince me that I was aligned more with them rather than answer the question. "... Read More The ACLU has also shown itself a willing tool of the terrorists, waging a massive anti-anti-terrorism legal campaign. Read More 2 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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Greyhawk,
Just a quick note- One of the great troop entertainers of WWII passing on 5 July went apparently unnoticed on the blogosphere. Frances Langford- who accompanied Bob Hope on most of his USO trips in WWII passed away at 92. She made a statement that one of the most significant things she had ever done was to support the troops and later wrote about it in a book- Purple Heart Diary. A great American. God bless her.
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