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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! October 11, 2005 Open PostBy Mrs Greyhawk Your windows on the world... Posted by Mrs Greyhawk / October 11, 2005 10:08 PM | Permalink 37 TrackBacks...But ex-CBS segment producer Mary Mapes has released a chapter from her upcoming book “Truth and Duty: The Press, the President, and the Privilege of Power” which reveals that she still believes that the danger to New York was real, and that any ta... Read More Goes to Rocky Rodriguez and Lori Parrish. They are the previous and now current Broward County property appraisers. Read More Instead of just adding to the previous post regarding the three explosive devices found on or near three college campuses, I will relate the information I have now here. There is still little or no information being reported in the national media. Whe... Read More They rebuilt their summer home on the barrier island even though it was in the path of hurricanes. the Leacys are an American story showing all you need is grit and pluck and thousands of dollars of someone else's money to rebuild your summer home. Read More The mystery of a charter jet that was stolen from Florida and later found at the Georgia airport where two of the 9/11 hi-jackers trained for their suicide mission, has been solved by a star-struck, yet alert police officer authorities Read More he Noraebang was closed last night for political unreliability, so I checked a new club called Utkyotalla. It is a comedy club. Not like American club with its unbiquitous (I use that right?) brick wall...nothing comedic about brick walls in Democratic... Read More Today's dose of NIF - News, Interesting & Funny ... It's a Kerry-180 Tuesday Read More This email is making the rounds: Read More …not that he did anything that really needs defending. From John McWhorter: …. In the ’90s, black people were 13 percent of the population but were committing 42 percent of violent crimes. Almost every big city in America has at l... Read More I know I have missed many opportunities to comment on important news stories during the past few weeks, but I hope my loyal readers will understand that sometimes life dictates the terms and all you can do is hold on and hope for the best. In my case... Read More According to the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer Update dated October 10, 2005, women in the U.S. and Australia have brought successful lawsuits against abortion doctors for neglecting to reveal the increased risks of breast cancer and emotional ... Read More (Continued from More thoughts on the Harriet Miers kerfuffle) Michelle Malkin has another good quote and link roundup here. Dafydd ab Hugh says Captain Ed's Washington Post piece overlooked a significant portion of the electorate: Cowboys, and follows ... Read More Alex: “Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to a special edition of Jeopardy. We call it ‘Jersey Jeopardy.’ I’d like to introduce you to our three contestants for tonight’s game. First, we have from Bayonne, New Jersey, Angelo Esposito.... Read More We now hit the home stretch and the best chance for a legitimate "exit strategy". If the draft Constitution is approved the pull for all Sunnis to join the political process should exceed the foregone hope that they may again rule the country. Read More (SMURFLAND, Oct. 11, 2005) -- Smurf Village was bombed into near oblivion today by as-yet-unknown forces, leaving hundreds of residents dead and thousands wounded and homeless. Read More There has been some humorous kerfuffling around the blogosphere regarding the woman (I certainly won't describe her as a "lady") who was apparently kicked off an Southwest Airlines flight because she refused to cover up or remove a profane political ... Read More I saw the alleged victim on Good Morning America today. He was interviewed by Charlie Gibson who I thought was asking some leading questions. The guy's comments just didn't seem to add up to me, and I think it is Read More First things first -- This spectacular image was shamelessly pilferred from T.King Art (I added the text). Go check him out...I know I'll be doing some Christmas shopping there! Now, on with the business at hand... Very recently, I put Read More The Knight Ridder Washington News Bureau wrote, “Military action won't end insurgency, growing number of U.S. officers believe.” As I read it, I could not help but think, “It is the beginning of the disillusionment.” Read More With children in the public school system, I’ve certainly been paying careful attention to education issues and the sociopolitical aspects thereof. Jacob Sullum, Editor of the journal Reason, has been too. He links the Michael Newdow lawsuit ov... Read More Tropical storm Vince became a hurricane Sunday in the far eastern Atlantic. The only name left on this year's list is Wilma, then the National Hurricane Center will for the first time declare that no more hurricanes will be tracked. Read More The AP says Senate Dems are upset with conservatives' criticism of Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers. The Dems say it's trashing. Is it? And what can a look at the Dems's recent past tell us? Read on. Read More More proof that the terrorists know the score on the American Homefront: WASHINGTON - In a letter to his top deputy in Iraq, al-Qaida's No. 2 leader said the United States "ran and left their agents" in Vietnam and the jihadists must have a pl... Read More A Huge Thank you to Ian at The Political Teen for recording the video for me. Real Teen has atranscript from Monday night’s show on the same topic. Click on pic, it will take you to The Political Teens Video of the Interview. Last night we ... Read More In a related story, the streets of Portland have exploded into an orgasmic orgy of carnal excess that leaves Mardi Gras looking like the Disney version of hedonistic delights. Citizens everywhere are engaging in what reasoned individuals would usuall... Read More Regardless of who is at the helm though, and even with modern Bond films centering on special effects and technology, I just can't fathom anyone even approaching the man who started it all with 1962's Dr. No. I mean, this guy IS Bond, James Bond Read More And on and on. The big boys (and girls) decided it was spinach and they did not like it. Soon, the baby ducks fell into line. Well, OK, everyone is entitled to their opinions. I'm just not really sure if an opinion formed instantly is worth a rat's ass. Read More NewsWEAK puts out an article that makes sense. I'm still in shock ... both from that and the facts divulged. Read More David Horowitz and Joseph Light present research (in PDF format) on how leftists are still dominating academic law and journalism, trying to train students of the professions solely to adhere to their ideologies. Read More Ask any sociologist and he'll tell you social behavior is more advanced than purely selfish behavior in one's own interest. Cats disagree with this profoundly. In fact, I think it's the social nature of humanity that gets you into so... Read More Documentary from JD on his old Marine Corps unit in Iraq. Maybe you remember the picture I had posted quite awhile back of the Marine with the puppy on his chest, that was JD's photo (Brawler Puppy). Read More "...This is where there anonymous blogging can contribute. If the goal is to truly advance discussion on the state of a community or practice (not be a whiners' club), it can be done anonymously..." Read More Mike Pechar has a post at Conservative Thinking (also at Interested-Participant) speaking of towns banning sexual offenders. I had heard a little talk of this lately, but didn’t realize it was basically going on in my backyard. The city of Des... Read More I am celebrating my 1 year blogiversary - open trackbacks and meaningless comments welcome! Read More Terrorism Terror's media: war over the Web — Alexandra Marks, The Christian Science Monitor Prior to 9/11, only a handful of extremist websites existed. Now there are thousands of increasingly sophisticated sites offering everything from chat rooms t... Read More thank you very good site Read More 6 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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Mrs. G - I've been enjoying the pics you're posting lately. Thanks!
Dear friends,
your recent attempt to block my messages has failed, as it was to be expected. Since I can't post anymore from my last computer because you "banned" me, I must use one of twelve others I have at my University. Anyway, I won my war against Bush and brought a little freedom to proud Nation of United States of America. I decided that this is my last post here, since I take banning as a sign of surrender. You have proven that free speech is danger to your society, and that you will definately succumb to the weight of despair of your soldiers, poor people, blacks, not educated whites and your own imagination.
I know you are Semper fi.
But....we are even more than that!
God bless United States of America!
No one banned you, Sinke. Your comments are welcome here, as I've made clear in response to your previous efforts.
San Francisco--the city that didn't want the USS Missouri memorial because the military is somehow bad--just passed a resolution urging that questions about criminal pasts be deleted from job applications.
things you can't ask an applicant: "Have you ever killed anyone?"
Way to go San Francisco!
Dear S(t)inke, You are sick.Get help.
Yes I am, yes I am. The doctor told me to tell the truth.