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43 TrackBacksAmerican Photo, Boating, Car and Driver, Cycle World, ELLE, ELLE Decor, ELLEgirl, Flying, For Me, Home, Metropolitan Home, Popular Photography & Imaging, Premiere, Road & Track, Road & Track Road Gear, Road & Track Speed, Shock, Sound & Vision, Woman... Read More The New York Times introduces their latest defense of the indefensible with a warning, that prior attempts to prosecute the press for disclosing national security secrets did not turn out well. In reminiscing about the Pentagon Papers, the editors of... Read More ...Despite the smoking crater, a steady flow of cars, bicycles, and pedestrians ventured across the structureless gulf between the abutments, willfully oblivious to the loss of the deck which would have supported them. Witnesses claim that bodies, Toyo... Read More That's right, pigeoneers... I'm selling one of my most prized possessions--The Current Iranian regime! Tell your friends, spam your enemies! 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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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G and Mrs G, Best Wishes on the PCS. May all your dishes, china, etc come thru intact. As well as the Kinder.
GEO6
Haitham al-Badri appears to be the most recent Saddam official caught working with al Qaeda in Iraq.
http://markeichenlaub.blogspot.com/2006/06/haitham-al-badri.html
Sorry about the duplicate trackback to Liberal and Loging it - it didn't show up at first and typepad said it didn't get submitted, so I tried again.
Hey guys it's BACK :(
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Cannot use the trackback you provide and post. Simply cannot do it, so I will put link here. A good read, I hope.
http://www.captainsjournal.com/2006/06/28/the-deadly-strategy-of-propaganda/
Love the t-shirt of the girl on the ad to the right. Capitalist Pig never looked so good!
DOD released an official statement supporting Hoekstra and Santorum on their WMD report. http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Jun2006/20060629_5547.html
It was also discussed in the House Armed Services Committee today.
Keep up the great work,
Mark Eichenlaub http://markeichenlaub.blogspot.com/
The Dumb Ox link has been giving me a not found for 2 days now. Is it my browser or is it the link??
For the rest of the links, thank you. Appreciate all the news you tell us since our MSM doesn't see fit to mention any of it.
BTW check the Volokh weblog for the bit on the Supremes and Balkin. He seems to think that there is no civilian presence in assistance to the military. I brought up some of them but for some reason the bloggers there do't thik that civilian presence is available unless it is channeled by the government. Spirit of America and Soldiers Angels don't seem to matter to those people.
Bill from Small Town Veteran is webmaster of a new veterans blog: Old War Dogs
The new blog is made of of Old Veterans who are supporting our troops and still have a fang or two to bare against their enemies.
Give them a read, its just starting up, but promises to be a milblog you will want to add to your favorites.
Papa Ray
West Texas
USA
Trackbacks seemto be flaky from MT blogs atn I get a Http 504 error. anyhow The article I attempted to add the the opn post is here
It seems that there are some server issues at your hosting company but they have sorted themselves out now, Ah the joys of being popular :)