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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! September 23, 2005 Open PostBy GreyhawkWe'll turn our attention away from Paris. For tonight's edition it's off to Germany for the Bad Durkheim Weinfest. 
Yes, the pictures are blurry. What part of Weinfest do you not understand? Now on with the Bad Mudville Openerpostersfest... Posted by Greyhawk / September 23, 2005 9:21 PM | Permalink 30 TrackBacksI found an interesting article by Pamela Hess of UPI in the Washington Times explaining how the 3rd ID is dealing with the citizens, terrorists, and leadership in and around Diyala province. A combination of carrots (improved civil infrastructure, cons... Read More ...“If this was a charter coming out of Palm Beach County from some Florida hurricane evacuation, sure, that’d be an easy call, ” said the executive. “But we strongly suspect a high quotient of gentiles in the final body count here– and baby, that’s ... Read More In a move that has delighted Star Wars enthusiasts and enraged Republicans everywhere, famed intergalactic heroes Lando Calrissian and Chewbacca recently turned up at an anti-war protest in Washington, DC. Wow, this is sweet, stated science fiction buf... Read More If his background has such deep Arab roots, it seems to me that naming his greyhound Kisa was either pretty insensitive (bad for a diplomat,) or a peek into his real feelings about the Saudi's. Read More Ralph Neas, the head of powerful liberal interest group People for the American Way is not a happy guy right now. He can't seem to block Judge Roberts nomination. Understanding why he can't tells us something very important that we often forget Read More Why aren't the sons and daughters of our top Republican politicians serving in the military? Because they don't have to. It's still an all-volunteer force, ladies and gentlemen, so people who don't have to serve generally don't. However, to some peop... Read More Today's dose of NIF - News, Interesting & Funny ... Weekend! Read More Via Sister Toldjah: WASHINGTON - Comparing President Bush to the Birmingham, Ala., police commissioner whose resistance to the civil rights movement became synonymous with Southern racism, Rep. Charles Rangel said yesterday of the president: “G... Read More And Sean Penn was there to rock the boat, too AP reports: “Actor Warren Beatty leveled a blistering political assault on Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Thursday night, accusing him of governing “by show, by spin, by cosmetics and photos op... Read More Just thought I’d mention that since I started blogging I’ve been stalked by an Islamofascist named Shahid. Apparently Shahid is representing himself as though he’s 19 years old…out of Indonesia (I think), but there have been t... Read More Today's winners are Artemio Castillo and Ernesto Garcia. Read More Ah it sounds so innocent. The headline in the Washington Post read: Antiwar Rally Will Be a First for Many Read More Indra Nooyi Indra K. Nooyi, CFO and President of PepsiCo first came to our attention for her middle-finger namaste to America. She outlined how the USA gives the world the middle finger in a speech at the graduation ceremony... Read More The senate judiciary has approved John Roberts as SCOTUS chief justice, with a comfortable margin of 13-5. It is expected he will be confirmed by the Senate next week with very little fuss. So with this desperately failed non-battle beneath Read More I think Hugh may be on to something here. With his post title, Schumer's Category 1 Scandal Upgraded to a Category 2. Senator Seeks Shelter, he alludes to something we've become all the more familiar with lately. Hurricane Categories. There Read More Carl Sandberg reflected on the timeless quality of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address in his masterwork, Abraham Lincoln, and in so doing rendered a fitting eulogy to those many Soldiers and Airmen and Sailors and Marines, who over the years have fall... Read More I saw the media interview this bozo a few days ago and heard him say in reference to the suggestions we cut the pork in the highway bill, "You don't know what the hell you're talking about... It's just ignorance and stupidity". I think it's ignorant... Read More Mi Casa Su Casa! We hit the 100,000 mark, plus its the weekend! Help us celebrate, pimp your best stuff. A link for a link…link to this post, send a trackback, and a link to your blog will magically appear. It’s a linkfest weekend! Share ... Read More All of those saying "We support the Troops but not the War" are really thinking what the second pane says: "We Have More Than Enough Troops To Screw Up Both At Once". Read More The criticism of the Bush Administration from the right is increasing noticably. The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina has only served to increase a trend that has been apparent for some time now; namely, that George Bush is not governing as a champi... Read More Let me start by saying that I’m no longer Catholic (a “recovering Catholic”, I like to call myself), but to me it has always been assumed that there might be some priests out there that were gay, but it never became an issue until th... Read More Isn't it amazing that on the eve of what the lefties have been claiming will be the largest protest on Capitol Hill a story would come out that one of our most esteemed and respected Army units, the 82nd Airborne, would have accusations hurled at it by... Read More I am not really a media pundit but I have been overwhelmed by the fantastic reporting of Hurricane Rita from CNN. What is interesting is that I don't usually like a lot of the CNN reporters but I have really been impressed by the professionalism and po... Read More I wanted to write a letter telling you all of the things you taught me. To point out the things you have passed onto me, and what an influence you have been to me. Read More Saturday is shopping day for the Emperor. I usually check the cart to make sure I get a good one, but today I was in a hurry, so I ended up suffering all the way through the market. My advice: if you go Ralphs, make sure you don’t get their new “Jet ... Read More Bring the troops home is no solution. AP reports: “Opponents of the war in Iraq rallied by the thousands Saturday to demand the return of U.S. troops, staging a day of protest, song and remembrance of the dead in marches through Washington and ... Read More LAT reports that the French media have taken the misery associated with Katrina to attack their long-time enemy–the United States. Marianne, a French newsmagazine declared: that the Katrina response discredited the entire free-market-driven, mil... Read More When Woody or I get a comment from a reader, and if we recognize that they may be a first time commenter, and if we have time we always try to send them an e-mail thanking them for commenting and inviting them back. This entry will be a change from the... Read More Since Jody and Mac absolved me of any obligation to actually write anything today (thanks!), I’ll put up the Obligatory Weekend Trackback Post™ now. :mrgreen: If you have something you’d like others to read, link to this post, and send a trackback... Read More I described the various atrocities committed by Al Qaeda, the Taliban, and the Iranian regime to my friend. One of Read More 7 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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I miss the fests... the games, the rides, the beer tent...
All right... what does a guy have to DO ta get a workin' trackback 'round here?
Government… as it pertains to the ongoing tyranny of this planets "superpowers"… a time of reflection is in order.
“But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future Security.”
The Declaration of Independence – 1776
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Vive la révolution / América pode ser reborne / De nuevo al comienzo / Eine Zeit für Kraft ist nach uns
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The Weinfest was one of my favorites. I'm so jealous!
Hi! Unable to make trackback work: "Malformed Response" error, so I've linked my blog post to you this way! Have A Great DAY! (click on "Dave Lucas" to read my entry!
I am soooooo jealous! Prost!
Dave has the right idea. So here's the post:
Best. Complaint. Letter. Ever.
http://mistersnitch.blogspot.com/2005/09/best-complaint-letter-ever.html