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31 TrackBacksFirst, Hawaii imposed price controls on gasoline. Now comes this story from California: Read More Today's dose of NIF - News, Interesting & Funny ... It's Kerry-180 Tuesday Read More The Senate begins the confirmation hearings for SCOTUS nominee John Roberts one week from today. Various special interests have gravitated toward their poles, ready to politicize what is supposed to be the least politically motivated branch of our gov... Read More I feel like all I do is ask for money. But that's not going to stop me now. Here is the link for the American Red Cross - they need money and manpower. Do NOT send clothes or food - they have nowhere to put them right now. Those with medical experience... Read More In an act of self-immolation that supporters are comparing to the protests of Buddhist monks during the Vietnam war, Cindy Sheehan threatened to “dump a glass of water on herself” by the end of the day if President Bush would not agree to... 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Read More An MSM editor tells readers about an email she received from the Governor's staff. But she doesn't provide a text copy. A blogger does. The results lead to questions about just what the editor was doing. Will MSM editors ever adapt to the new technol... Read More Stephen F. Hayes has written another good article - See No Evil, Hear No Evil - for The Weekly Standard about the evidence of a connection between al Qaeda and Iraq. AHMED HIKMAT SHAKIR IS A shadowy figure who provided logistical assistance to one, ... Read More Now that's a headline you don't see very often! I'm hoping that this is some good news that might signal a change of heart for Zarqawi supporters.from the Washington PostRAMADI, Iraq, Aug. 30 -- U.S. warplanes backed Sunni Arab tribal Read More This just in. Code Pink is now blaming infiltrators for their signage, and conservatives for their bad press. Read More I had a dog named Fred. He was a stray dog found during a storm brought in by Hurricane Frederic in 1979. Bianca Doucett has a better story. Evacuating mom in Mississippi gives birth in traffic jamDoucett had planned to... Read More Already 88 confirmed dead (updated) and sadly, most of the devastation is only beginning. CNN is reporting that a levee on Lake Pontchartrain has sustained a breach, and flood waters are rising. More coverage can be found at Fox Read More The Reverend Al Sharpton had a run-in with the law the other day as he left Cindy Sheehan's ranchside vigil at President Bush's Crawford, Texas home. Mr. Sharpton's car reportedly reached speeds of over 100 mph during the chase. We Read More On a day where we have witnessed an unbelievable amount of carnage in New Orleans, Gulfport, Biloxi and the entire Gulf region, we have idiots that have been quick to try to lay the blame somewhere; usually at the feet of President Bush. The first asse... 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Read More Hitchens, a committed socialist, with whom I disagree on just about everything concerning economic policy, is proving himself to be my most staunch supporter, my mouthpiece, my eloquent defender. Read More ...Economists are fearing that the price of gasoline may peak at somewhere near the cost of bottled water, which may force changes in habits– an action that routine-dependent Americans are loathe to take... Read More Independent Sources believes that technology ultimately solves the problems that it creates. There is just a lag between the two. Nonbelievers will point out that when it comes to a finite resource like oil there just isn’t much technology can ... Read More Alrighty, can't wait to see how this turns out for Ms. Sheehan. Protesting the Blue Angels, I'm sure it will be very effective in promoting her cause!! And it's on September 10th too, nobody will remember September 11th, 2001 I'm sure. Read More Some time back, Traditional Values Coalition in partnership with Life Dynamics, Inc. conducted an investigation that provided "irrefutable proof that Planned Parenthood (PP) is deliberately covering up the sexual molestation of girls." Read More The hard truth of the famous quote..."Good people sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf," is one most liberals and leftists, as well as all pacifists, would prefer to deny--too messy, t... Read More 3 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, it may not be MT. Are you hosted by Hosting Matters? There was a large DOS attack today on the Medea server, as well as problems on the AT&T and TimeWarner networks. The Medea attack affected most of the other servers on the HM network (I'm on Dione, and I was down twice today).
Wizbang, Instapundit, Hugh Hewitt, Captain's Quarters have all had problems today. Oh, and Point Five.
MY HEART IS BROKEN:
AFTER THE LARGEST NATURAL STORM IN UNITED STATES HISTORY HAS KILLED HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE AND DEVASTATED NEW ORLEANS AND OTHER CITIES RENDERING PEOPLE HOMELESS AND JOBLESS WITH NO WHERE TO GO, HOW CAN SOME WEB SITES "DAILY KOS" SEEK TO GAIN POLITICAL GAIN. IS THERE ANYTHING IN THE WORLD THAT IS NOT BUSH'S FAULT? IF YOUR DOG HAS FLEAS IS IT BUSH'S FAULT? MOST OF THE PEOPLE SEEKING SHELTER IN THE ASTRODOME WERE BLACK, A CONSPIRACY OBVIDIOUSLY. THEIR HATE OF BUSH IS SO GREAT THEY PRAY FOR OUR SOLDIERS DEFEAT.
MY HEART IS BROKEN:
AFTER THE LARGEST NATURAL STORM IN UNITED STATES HISTORY HAS KILLED HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE AND DEVASTATED NEW ORLEANS AND OTHER CITIES RENDERING PEOPLE HOMELESS AND JOBLESS WITH NO WHERE TO GO, HOW CAN SOME WEB SITES "DAILY KOS" SEEK TO GAIN POLITICAL GAIN. IS THERE ANYTHING IN THE WORLD THAT IS NOT BUSH'S FAULT? IF YOUR DOG HAS FLEAS IS IT BUSH'S FAULT? MOST OF THE PEOPLE SEEKING SHELTER IN THE ASTRODOME WERE BLACK, A CONSPIRACY OBVIDIOUSLY. THEIR HATE OF BUSH IS SO GREAT THEY PRAY FOR OUR SOLDIERS DEFEAT.