 |  |
 
October 2012
August 2012 July 2012 May 2012 April 2012 March 2012 December 2011 November 2011 October 2011 September 2011 August 2011 July 2011 June 2011 May 2011 April 2011 March 2011 February 2011 January 2011 December 2010 November 2010 October 2010 September 2010 August 2010 July 2010 June 2010 May 2010 April 2010 March 2010 February 2010 January 2010 December 2009 November 2009 October 2009 September 2009 August 2009 July 2009 June 2009 May 2009 April 2009 March 2009 February 2009 January 2009 December 2008 November 2008 October 2008 September 2008 August 2008 July 2008 June 2008 May 2008 April 2008 March 2008 February 2008 January 2008 December 2007 November 2007 October 2007 September 2007 August 2007 July 2007 June 2007 May 2007 April 2007 March 2007 February 2007 January 2007 December 2006 November 2006 October 2006 September 2006 August 2006 July 2006 June 2006 May 2006 April 2006 March 2006 February 2006 January 2006 December 2005 November 2005 October 2005 September 2005 August 2005 July 2005 June 2005 May 2005 April 2005 March 2005 February 2005 January 2005 December 2004 November 2004 October 2004 September 2004 August 2004 July 2004 June 2004 May 2004 April 2004 March 2004 February 2004 January 2004 December 2003 November 2003 October 2003 September 2003 August 2003 July 2003 June 2003 May 2003 April 2003 March 2003 February 2003 January 2003
     |
 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! September 12, 2005 Open PostBy GreyhawkThe Trackbacks are back! Add your's to the stack! Posted by Greyhawk / September 12, 2005 8:06 PM | Permalink 37 TrackBacksThe National Football League has started another season, which means my Thursdays, Sundays, and Mondays are going to be filled once again with joy, disbelief, frustration, dispair, happiness, and beer. Read More In reading Thunder6's posting "The Silence of the Lambs" I was reminded of the story of Staff Sgt James Alford. The last update I had read was this one below which is from (I think) November, 2004. I'm wondering if anyone has any new information abou... Read More While scouting thru the sitemeter logs, I saw a referral from Dawn's Early Light. I linked over and found a great synopsis of many places to get information on finding missing family members, as well as places to make your donations to Read More “Say Cheese” - Prototype 1A From The Imperial Advanced Projects Agency By Special Commission Of The Evil Emperor Mindstation Read More Several bloggers chased after Democrats this past week for using the tragedy of events in New Orleans and Louisianna for fund raising activities barely or not at all related to the relief efforts. It seems as if Democratic Party proxies are getting in ... Read More I woke up that morning around 04:30. I was to depart for a long business trip that afternoon, so lots to do. It was still pre-dawn when I returned from my jog and I could clearly make out Orion’s belt up above the tall oaks behind my house. I s... Read More Internet giant Yahoo has admitted that it gave Communist China the information it needd to convict a journalist accused of leaking state secrets Read More The Washington Post reported Bush Denies Race, War Played Role in Katrina Response. Rather than put it through my filter, I will allow the man to speak for himself: Read More Sixty-eight bucks. That's what is cost to fill up my truck today. As I was watching the $$$ run much faster than the gallons, I was wondering what else was out there. I'm not talking about the BILLIONS in quarterly profits "earned" by Big Oil, I'm ta... Read More The Political Teen has video of an interview of Senator Mary Landrieu and Senator David Vitter, both of Louisiana, given by Chris Wallace of FoxNews this past Sunday. During the interview Wallace asks both politicians some pointed questions to which Read More Today's dose of NIF - News, Interesting & Funny ... Ugh, Monday Read More Robert Novak's commentary at Realclearpolitics.com is pretty definite. He says the next Supreme Court nominee will be Judge Priscilla Owen of Texas. Read why and see what you think. Read More President Bush has suspended the Davis-Bacon Act to help limit the costs and bureaucratic red tape involved with the reconstruction of the region hit by hurricane Katrina. The Davis-Bacon Act is a Jim Crow era law designed to price black workers out ... Read More TITLE: Do White People Care? URL: http://rightwingsparkle.blogspot.com/2005/09/do-white-people-care.html IP: 70.240.184.155 BLOG NAME: Rightwingsparkle DATE: 09/12/2005 11:17:26 PM Read More Just got these pictures of USS Philadelphia in port in Bahrain after her collision with M/V Yaso Aysen. In this first picture, looking aft from the sail, it's clear that the merchant rode up on Philly's deck: Read More All of the photographs contained on this posting are from a variety of blogs with one thing in common. They remember 9/11/01 and they tell the story of those memories. Click on the photograph to see the site I got it from. If you tear up as I have, tha... Read More John Roberts Judge Roberts is before the Senate giving his opening statement. He has no notes. No paper shuffling. No "where's page 10?" He had his points memorized and his delivery easy and practiced. No downcast furtive glances at... Read More I've been described by others and by personality tests I've had to take over the years as someone who is pretty emotionally centered. My highs are not euphoric and my downs are not extreme. There is one exception. For as long as I can remember, heros ... Read More When asked about the federal response with regard to evacuation of Hurricane Katrina survivors during an interview with Chris Wallace on this week's edition of Fox News Sunday, Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA) responded ... this (the Bush) administration d... Read More Today's winner is Sophie Gustafson. Read More I have perused some lefty blogs and read some message boards today that have left me flat out disgusted. You remember the CNN story "Firms With White House Ties Get Katrina Contracts" right? Well, the complaints I’ve been reading the past couple of ... Read More The USS Pueblo is a popular tourist attraction on the Taedong River in Pyongyang North Korea North Korea is trying to use the USS Pueblo to force Condi Rice to make nice. Won't happen. Captured Crew Members USS Pueblo,... Read More Is this why I was relieved and am being reassigned to an infantry unit? Not entirely, but it shows how USAREC believed a retard who couldn't recruit over me. Read More It's September 12th. For some of us, it will be for a long time to come. For other's, it was September 10th again before the WTC even quit smoking. If you're back in that September 10th world, here are Read More Yet, they do not consider the inherent moral dangers that arise when a people decide to cast off the chains that moor the ship of state to a solid philosophical anchor, and let that ship drift out in the currents of opinion. Read More It seems that one last brutal gasp of Hurricane Katrina has performed a final act of devastation, as a rogue feeder band of the powerful storm tore through Disneyland’s New Orleans Square. Disney officials are calling the themed land a total loss. Read More New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin pleaded with other cities in the Gulf of Mexico region to assist in meeting the mayor's body-count assessment. Read More If you think Teddy Kennedy, Nancy Pelosi or even Pat Robertson are over the edge, you ain’t seen nuthin’ until you spend some time “watching” what is broadcast on television in the Middle East. I once heard someone say dismissively that some people i... Read More for every comment (1 per person and anonymous comments don't count - be brave and use your name!) logged on this blog for this post between 12:01 am Thursday, September 8 and midnight Thursday September 15 (Hawaii Standard Time), I will donate $1 to ei... Read More In the old days, the Senate received the names of judicial nominations, approved them and went back to spending tax money. Read More I found this blog from the comments at Major K's. CROWS??? What is that you ask. It stands for "Common Remotely Operated Weapon Station". It is a new weapons station designed to protect our soldiers from sniper fire and IED explosions by taking the T... Read More Several bloggers chased after Democrats this past week for using the tragedy of events in New Orleans and Louisiana for fund raising activities barely or not at all related to the relief efforts. It seems as if Democratic Party proxies are getting in o... Read More Soldier blogger SFC Kevin Kelly is stunned by a September 11 order to remove all but one American flag at Forward Operating Base Dogwood. Read More I came across this BBC article about Afghan President Hamid Karzai's call to rethink security operations, and I was amazed at how much attention the BBC paid to Afghanistan compared to American media. One problem with the war in Iraq... Read More The N&O runs a WaPo article today that defines the MSM spinning good news into bad news. Iraqi President Jalal Talabani thinks we can withdraw as many as 50,000 troops by the end of the year. He is confident that the training of Iraqi troops has p... Read More The ACLU is urging the Senate Judiciary Committee to fully probe Roberts’ record. They are troubled over areas in his record where he opposed killing unborn babies, and even supported prayer in school! In other words, they fear he will be a stumb... Read More There has been a lot of buzz about Barak Obama's alleged statement that "passive indifference is as bad as active malice". I know many of you are offended by this statement on many levels, but I think it's a good... Read More 5 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 |
Comments (0) |
|
The Mudville Gazette is the on-line voice of an American warrior and his wife who stands by him. They prefer to see peaceful change render force of arms unnecessary. Until that day they stand fast with those who struggle for freedom, strike for reason, and pray for a better tomorrow.
 
 
 Furthermore, I will occasionally use satire or parody herein. The bottom line: it's my house. I like having visitors to my house. I hope you are entertained. I fight for your right to free speech, and am thrilled when you exercise said rights here. Comments and e-mails are welcome, but all such communication is to be assumed to be 1)the original work of any who initiate said communication and 2)the property of the Mudville Gazette, with free use granted thereto for publication in electronic or written form. If you do NOT wish to have your message posted, write "CONFIDENTIAL" in the subject line of your email. Original content copyright © 2003 - 2011 by Greyhawk. Fair, not-for-profit use of said material by others is encouraged, as long as acknowledgement and credit is given, to include the url of the original source post. Other arrangements can be made as needed. Contact: greyhawk at mudvillegazette dot com  Tending Distant Far from hearth and home, watching What tales we'll tell When things grim Some distant sunset, vision fading Saluting fallen friends whose names - Greyhawk, Baghdad, December 2004 |
Still seems to be a problem, at least for me.
Getting an error that reads:
Can't call method "entry_id" without a package or object reference at plugins/Blacklist/lib/Blacklist/Util.pm line 82.
Nevermind. My bad. (wrong trackback URL)
It’s Business As Usual At The United Nations. Not So Fast!
I don't even know how this works to begin with.
How would you like a teenage boy deciding your fate?
Looks like our guys are kicking ass and taking names with the help of the Iraqi Army.
Papa Ray
West Texas
uSA