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54 TrackBacksSo lets see, we have a hospital in Baalbenk, built by Iran for Hezbollah interests and in the thick of this war, it's empty? Sure it was a hospital, riiiiiiiight....... Read More So who does Congressman Murtha represent? Those in his district, or Hamas and Hizbollah? I think it is time to send Murtha to a retirement home, preferably one in Tehran. Read More 'House of Hell' survivor awarded Navy Cross July 28, 2006; Submitted on: 07/28/2006 07:45:51 PM ; Story ID#: 2006728194551 By Gunnery Sgt. Keith A. Milks, MCB Camp Pendleton CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (July 28, 2006) -- His desert utilities shredded by Read More I would bet that Hugo Chavez is a major member of this “International Network”. It could be pure coincidence that within weeks of a visit by North Korean delegates to Caracas, to see dictator-in-progress Hugo Chavez, Dear Leader test-fired a medium r... 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Read More The enemy that Israel faces is the same enemy that we face, and the same enemy that the whole civilized world faces. Our enemy in this war is an ideology of despotism, tyrany and hatred. One which uses religion as a motivating factor in recruiting and ... Read More Offensive Odor Delays Release From Hospital Cuban President Fidel Castro remained in guarded condition Thursday after surgery to relieve a stomach ailment.... Read More VIEW THE "Obsession" TRAILER... Submitted for your consideration: When Western self-loathing Liberals are rushing to criminalize "hate speech" exressing the slightest moral criticism of a person's "lifestyle" doesn't it make at least as much sens... Read More Today's featured Charity in support of our troops is Soldier Ride. Soldier Ride 2006 - America Still Remembers Each year Soldier Ride sponsors a cross-country cycling event to aid in the rehabilitation of the brave men and women who return... 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My cell phone vibrated and as I glanced to see the incoming call number, it was apparent it was an exchange used by ..... Read More Today's winner is the News agency Reuters. Read More 11) If you could say something to the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan that feel these groups represent a majority of American thought -what would it be? "I don't make my photo reports to claim that the protesters are "taking over" the country, or t... Read More Another blow to MSM credibility on mideast issues is their doctoring, or, as in the case Reuters, Reutering the photos of Lebanon during Israeli warplaning, to make it look like the damage done was even worse than it was. Little Green Footballs has s... Read More Almost slipped under my radar, but, seems that Joss Whedon of Buffy fame added himself to the list of showbiz persona without an ounce of morale. Read More Once again, Haifa was hit by katyushas in by far the worst attack yet by the Hezbollah, leaving 3 dead and at least 160 injured: Read More It's a good thing I came across this shocker from The Epoch Times, from a Reuters article from July. It just goes to prove that yes, Jean-MarieDhimmi Le Pen can be and IS dangerous to even his fellow French compatriots: Read More Al-Reuters is displaying a pattern of conduct that is clearly demonstrating its bias in this conflict and its Anti-American and Anti-Israel ”reporting” in its news coverage. A merger with Al-Jazera is certainly complete in its bias all that is needed n... Read More "When one thinks of the personification of failure, one’s mind immediately conjures names like Warren Harding, or perhaps John Quincy Adams," said Carter, whose Administration... Read More video of the Iranian made drone that Hezbollah sent south being shot down by the IAF................... Read More Yep, Madman has a new job. GWB got the boys in the MSM Black ops division of a certain government agency to infiltrate me into the MSM! GWB figures that I can wreak my particular brand of havoc in the... Read More Today's winner is Steve Swoboda. Read More The Marines Liaison Office at Landstuhl are in need of phone cards for their inpatients. I recently gave them the last 20 or so cards I had "in stock" at Soldiers' Angels Germany. I realize these are expensive items, but it's the least we can do for... Read More Much like rescue workers charged into the World Trade Center inferno on 9/11, Hezbollah rescue workers in Qana worked feverishly to to gather the children of the Lebanese village and dash them to safety. Read More So Cindy and the rest of the Surrender monkeys will be forced to maintain their protest on the 5 Acre plot of land they bought (by lies and deception) about 7 miles away from Bush’s Ranch. Read More Providing handouts like free tuition to Illegal Immigrants does nothing more than serve as a magnet and invitation for more illegal activity. Providing free tuition to those who are not even LEGAL residents in the country, and denying the same benefits... Read More Providing handouts like free tuition to Illegal Immigrants does nothing more than serve as a magnet and invitation for more illegal activity. Providing free tuition to those who are not even LEGAL residents in the country, and denying the same benefits... Read More It’s always great to be able to get the scoop that no one else can, and it is with ego-swelling pleasure I bring to you this exclusive interview with Fidel Castro. There has been much speculating lately on why both Fidel and Raoul have been absent from... Read More The military campaign that many thought had begun time after time over the past month, could be on, but it could be a UN pressure move. We won't know probably until tomorrow................ Read More Today's winner is Attorney Keith A Yeazel. Read More Since George Galloway’s benefactor, Saddam Hussein has been removed from power poor George has resorted to Begging. Read More You have to wonder if this is somehow connected with the Terror Plot the Brits busted today, or with the remaining 8 Egyptian students still missing, or reports of Hizbullah sleeper cells activated. Can it all be coincidence??? Somehow I doubt it. Read More Reports from the ground are pouring in here at Radioactive Liberty. Edna Glass, a witness on the scene verified that the suspects were of an “indeterminable ethnic and religious background.” She said, “I saw one of the suspects being taken into custody... Read More Today's winners are Manatee County Judge George K. Brown Jr and the Manatee County Sheriff's Department. Read More Today's winner is Roman Catholic Bishop Daniel Walsh. Read More Today's winner is novelist Gunther Grass. Read More 21 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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Glad to hear it.
You still in Germany?
Glad to hear you are back blogging. Missed you.
Blog nonsilence will be very welcome ;)
You're worth waiting for :-)
the wait will be worth it.
God bless you, Greyhawks! You've been missed, and I am sure the time away has been well spent.
I can't wait to hear what's next. You're in our prayers.
Miss you guys :-((
We all can't wait to have you back!
very good. hope all in the G household are settled... and unpacked! looking forward to the Gs being back in the blog world.
Thank you for the open thread, and I hope all is well. Looking forward to your posts in the near future. We have missed that and you..........
Hey guys! Show this American Hero some love.
Check out the post on Iran. Alarming stuff.
http://truthonirag.blogspot.com/
u must be very proud to be american now that iraq is heading into civil war......
Yes. I am still proud to be an American. How about you? How does it feel to have spun all 2 of your brain cells and still come up short with a statement like this?
"u must be very proud to be american now that iraq is heading into civil war......"
Posted by peter sampson at August 7, 2006 09:30 AM
Next time come back when you have something better to say.
Trackback still testy ... will not work. Drop by and take a short look at a post on my son, currently in 2/6 at Camp Lejeune, scheduled to deploy early 2007. Say a prayer for him and his unit too.
http://www.captainsjournal.com/2006/08/05/my-son-the-grunt/
Test
So where is your new homebase (I almost said homeport) anyway?
Subsunk
O.K. .GH, time to call your mother.
hey yankee bwoy....how about the rape of a 14 yr old iraqi girl and also that of her nation by foolish young men who carry firearms instead of their dignity
Yeah GH, call your mom.
Peter,
I'm not sure if you read or watch the news, my guess is that you don't. But those soldiers are being prosecuted for their crimes. What they did was despicable and they deserve the maximum punishment possible. But they are not representative of the US military.
Explain this to me: If the US military is the problem in Iraq. Why are Iraqi's killing each other?
Which headline is up next genius? Israel?? Come on spins some more brain cells up.
SaveTheSoldiers.com has an awesome tribute to honor the soldiers....
the quick link is Hero.savethesoldiers.com