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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! August 10, 2006 Living in AmericaBy Greyhawk...which is apparently a happy place. It's good to be home. Posted by Greyhawk / August 10, 2006 1:41 AM | Permalink 35 TrackBacksTwo stories that don't seem to have any connection: Jihadi terror attack thwarted and Algore shown to be a liar again? The Mighty Algore turns out to be a lying hypocrite when it comes to his own "carbon-neutral" lifestyle. Duh. He doesn't us .... Read More I knew it wouldn’t take long for the conspiracy theorist Kids at Kos to somehow blame Bush for the British Terror Plot… Their theory is that since Joe Llieberman lost his primary election yesterday to the Moveon.org and Michael Moore Candidate Ned Lamo... Read More For those who need it, today's thwarted a terrorist plot is a wakeup call that we are at war. A war in which the enemies' directive commands them to kill Christians and Jews, to kill all Americans, and to make no distinction among military and civi... Read More The Islamic community has an Identity problem. The only individuals defining what Islam is, happen to be the same people who advocate whiping a soverign state off the map, detonating car bombs in crowded markets, or fly air planes into office buildings... Read More Several thoughts on a day when the War on Islamic Terror was brought home again. • The United States needs to use an overpowering and overwhelming force to get control in Iraq. While the US will, no doubt, remain in Iraq for many years in the future... Read More Today's winner is David K Booth of Royal Oak Michigan. Read More The contrived campaign of Ned Lamont is destined for ultimate failure. The jubilant cries from liberals across the country will ring hollow on Election Day this November. I hope we see lots of photographs from the Lamont defeat rally on Election night... Read More It seems there are an awfully lot of bloggers vying for a position with Reuters as a replacement to the photoshopper the ‘news’ median recently lost due to an enormously pathethic photoshopping job. Weekend Trackback Read More It seems there are an awfully lot of bloggers vying for a position with Reuters as a replacement to the photoshopper the ‘news’ median recently lost due to an enormously pathethic photoshopping job. Weekend Trackback Read More Will it work? Doubtful unless Hezbollah is disarmed and prevented from re-entering the "southern blue zone". Based on the those playing the role of disarming Hezbollah I say this is only a pause before the next round and the all out offensive and war... Read More -Hello, President Ahmadinejad. Thank you for this opportunity. -I thought you were retired, Mike. Read More Josh Trevino, Charmaine, John Aravosis Last July Charmaine traveled with a team of bloggers to the G-8 Summit in Edinburg. The Summit was soon forgotten in the 7.7 blow-up of London. In keeping with the reporting dictum: If it... Read More I've been trying to figure out why the liberal elite of the democratic party is so upset about Joe Lieberman's loss. I don't think it's the difference in his and Lamont's views on the war - Lamont is no different Read More I have seen a lot of people who initially supported the war in Iraq bend themselves into amazing contortions trying to square that with what has happened. I'm going to take a different approach. I was wrong. Nothing more, just Read More And there's a few minor blemishes to the finish as well . . . Read More ...One thing was obvious within every person I talked with; they may have different customs but every one of them desired freedom. Read More I'm slowly getting back into the swing of things again and one of my biggest obstacles as far as the good news goes is that there was so much of it I'm having trouble sorting through it all. That's not going to slow me down any though. Read More As long as Ortega remained in prison he would serve as a rallying point for opposition in Venezuela. If he were executed by the Chavez dictatorship, he would serve as a Martyr to the same opposition… If he were to die in an attempted escape he would qu... Read More My personal opinion on all of this is that Iran is using ties with the various terror organizations and fundamentalist Islamic networks to saturate our law enforcement and intelligence communities in an effort to divert attention away from confronting ... Read More What makes this scary is that the terrorists who kidnapped them could be more lethal to FOX correspondents than to ones from CNN or CBS. Reuters has this report: Read More We received another email from Mr. Robert Stokely last night, reminding us again of the high cost of freedom ~ not just for the soldies themselves, but also their families. We are humbly grateful for the service and sacrifice of Sgt. Mike Stokely ...... Read More These are the same people that ask, “Where’s the Muslim that doesn’t want to kill the infidel? Where’s the Muslim that denounces terrorism?” And when they do happen to come across one that meets that very description, they go to his blog and leave comm... Read More American Muslims Buy Cases Of Disposable Phones In Desperate Bid To Save Lives Read More I though I'd start off today's news with a picture that I took of myself on the Blackhawk that I rode back to the IZ. It's kinda spooky, but kinda cool. I recently met a Polish freelance photographer, Jordan Lewandowski, via email. His website, MJL P... Read More In Iran, the government is cracking down on the citizen media; bloggers Iranian authorities are stepping up arrests and pressure on popular bloggers as part of a wider Internet clampdown launched after hard-liner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad became president la... Read More On August 16, 2005, at 0700 hours eastern daylight savings time, a call that changed the life of every member of the Stokely family came to our home in Sharpsburg GA - "Mr. Stokely, this is Major Hulsey; I am here with Chaplin Dicoppo and we need ...... Read More Provided we maintain our commitment in Iraq and Afghanistan, future generations will have opportunities to pursue vocations beyond bomb making, and seeking martyrdom. Our combat forces are fighting this generation of terrorists. The rebuilding efforts ... Read More Soldiers and Marines: Make sure you follow the following check list prior to engaging the enemy opposition victims poor unfortunate insurgents in the wrong place at the wrong time, in battle. Read More Kat in Ga writes: 6:20 p.m., EST 15 August 05 Or, to translate that into Baghdad time, 2:20 a.m., 16 August, 2005. On that date, Sgt. Michael J. Stokely was killed by an improvised explosive device in Yusufiyah, south of Baghdad. Whatever time z ... Read More In recent months Iranian Prsident Ahmadinejad has written letters out to such world leaders as President Bush, German Chancelor Merkel, and French President Jaques Chirac. All apparently without much of a response. Now his quest for a Pen Pal continue... Read More The picture you see here is one that I took inside the building that will become our new tech control facility (TCF). A TCF is the brain of a network. When your watching TV and you see nerds frantically pulling cables and circuit cards from cabinets ... Read More As you know, today at 6:20 p.m., approximately 2:20 a.m. Baghdad time, was the exact one-year anniversary of the exact moment when Sgt. Michael Stokely, our hometown hero, was killed in Iraq. Late last week, we got an email from Robert Stokely, invit... Read More Kat in Ga takes us to a small private memorial service in honor of Sgt. Michael Stokely, US Army. Lets stand off to the side and listen to the events unfold: After everyone had arrived, Robert called us all around the gravesite to share a few wo .... Read More ...In a feat of judicial bravery not seen since Elk Grove v. Newdow, Judge Taylor looked out her office window and saw the incoming plane. But instead of panicking, she hastily drew up an injunction against the attack, and was able to file it with the ... Read More ...In a feat of judicial bravery not seen since Elk Grove v. Newdow, Judge Taylor looked out her office window and saw the incoming plane. But instead of panicking, she hastily drew up an injunction against the attack, and was able to file it with the ... Read More 23 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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Welcome back to your Web Home, many happy returns!
Welcome back to ALL your homes! Hope all is well. We missed you both a bunch.
Welcome back indeed.........Looking forward to your post on the "events of the day"........
Welcome back to the good ol' U.S. of A, Greyhawk Family! I'm so happy for you all, and looking forward to hearing our thoughts on life back here at home.
Welcome home, sir. You were definitely missed.
Welcome home! And, welcome back online. We've missed you!
Welcome home!
Welcome home, Greyhawks.
As the real war in the MidEast spools up, the war of words continues here ... and more than ever, this nation needs you, and others of like mind, to continue to fight the good fight against those who confuse the posession of power with the intention of evil ... and through their misguided opposition to decisive action by free people, endanger us all.
I am glad to see that you are now in an even better position to fight this good fight.
Carry on.
Welcome Home. Happy place indeed. Russia's ranking reminded me of a game we would play driving through Moscow in the 1980's. It was called "Count the smiling people". City of millions, I never counted over five. Including children.
Anyway, bienvenidos a los Estados Unidos!
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I'd like to see a map beside that one showing the countries that are most appreciative of their happiness. I'd bet that America wouldn't be red on that one.
Welcome home!
Hm. I'm getting document not found.
Welcome home, Greyhawks! Glad you made it back safe and sound. We look forward to your (resumed) leadership!
Ha, looks like they pulled it! I did a search on their website,it is listed as:
http://www.le.ac.uk/ua/pr/headlines/headlinearchive2.html
But it ain't there!
Guess they don't like us!
Mr & Mrs G and the [not so little] G's... welcome home!! Looking forward to the G's wit and wisdom...
Welcome back!
Welcome home.
Since this is an open thread, I will comment on the pathetic goings-on in the middle east and the loser State Department policy and pitiful Condi. But over at my web site I call for war between the U.S. Marines and Hezbollah. You know? Payback for 220 dead Marines. Stand back and watch it happen.
Welcome back state side. :-)
Welcome Home Soldier!
Welcome home.
Welcome home, Greyhawk!
Yes, truly, WELCOME HOME!