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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 26, 2005 Open PostBy Greyhawk
Notre Dame, at night, full moon. Sort of an Open Post, if you will...
Light your fires here. Posted by Greyhawk / September 26, 2005 8:06 PM | Permalink 33 TrackBacksIt is well known that a good consultant can graph out a trend line using the random numbers from thrown dice. I have for you, Gentle Reader, still another data point in the continuing question of Pepsi Patriotism: The... Read More We are waiting (not so patiently) to hear what unit it was and who was on board. In the meantime, my prayers go out to all of the families who are dealing with the news that none of us ever wants to hear. Read More ...Less well- known, but certainly as important, another Nazi hunter was memorialized this week. Hans Schroder, whose stirring rallying cry was “I support the Nazi troops, but not their mission,” was remembered on the National Mall on Sunday by leade... Read More I was privileged to have attended the Support the Troops rally yesterday on The Mall in Washington, D.C. What I saw was several hundred people who love America and apprecite the sacrifice of our brave warriors in Iraq, Afghanistan, and throughout the... Read More I have been accused of auditioning for Scott Mcllellan and before him Ari Fleischer's job as W's designated liar. Read More Venezuela is reportedly planning to buy three Russian submarines to modernise its navy's fleet in the latest potential military deal between the two countries. Read More The reason that Saddam Hussein is being tried for this particular case, is that the soldiers who were responsible for Ad Dujail in 2004, were horrified by accounts of the mass murder that they collected witness statements in the hopes of bringing jus... Read More The editorial board of the Washington Post lays down the guantlet in the fight over the person who will replace Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. Read More What started off as a laid back yet sensible peace rally took a violent turn earlier this afternoon in Washington, D.C. as anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan was arrested. Things were going great until the brown shirts showed up, said 43 Read More Using his "It's all about politics for us, so it must be all about politics for them" template, Senator Shumer had this to say (source), Democrats say their planned votes shows their senators are allowed to think for themselves, instead of being forc... Read More There are many jokes, based on fact, for voting in Chicago. Vote Early, Vote Often. Voters on the voting roll, whose forwarding address is a cemetary. I believe Pakistan has one-up'ed them. Seems two women were elected to office. Only Read More I have a email address for a deranged monkey to submit it's resume for employment here at Radioactive Liberty. I had the pleasure of receiving this application from DNC Chairman Dean. YEARRRRRGH! Dear Deranged, Mr. Dean, YOU are the Deranged one, n... Read More The supposed lurid accusation comes from none other than that bastion of multiple layers of fact checking, the National Enquirer. According to a Dr. Justin Frank, Bush is likely hitting the bottle again. This is backed up with several quotes from “ot... Read More The Thrill of Victory Source: Yahoo! News The agony sets in Source: Yahoo! News Akers, Eagles, NFL, Football Read More Dalai Lama Tells U.S. Crowd War Outdated PISCATAWAY, N.J. - The Dalai Lama told 36,000 people at Rutgers Stadium that the concept of war was outdated and young people have a responsibility to make this century one of peace. That’s it? Tha... Read More In the Saturday Gazette-Mail, I urged people to Take a good cold, hard look at poverty. Little did I know that William Raspberry was already taking an even tougher look at poverty: Why today's young women have kids first and marry later. This is not si... Read More In another of her amazing essays, Cassandra articulates one of the many reasons why the "anti-war" pressure to leave Iraq prematurely is so repugnant, and bereft of fundamental human decency. Read More Hmmm. Roe v Wade must have been overturned and this was an abortion performed in a backshop hacksmiths office. Oh that's right, Roe v Wade wasn't overturned and this girl was at a LEGAL baby killer (oops I mean abortion) clinic. Read More Just a few weeks ago, Bill Whittle of Eject! Eject! Eject! posted a fine essay on "tribes", that was very relevant due to the news reports of the chaos in New Orleans. Today, I found it disturbing to hear at least two talk radio shows discuss the ... Read More Cindy Sheehan, the once leader of an anti war movement turned nutcase was arrested today in Washington D.C. In some reports, there is a picture of her smug face as she is dragged away. I she has turned from grieving for her son to actually enjoying her... Read More An interesting report on statistics from the U.S. Department of Justice on Criminal Victimization for last year. Dalton McGuinty, David Miller and the rest of us judgemental Canadians would do well to take a good look at it. Here are Read More And this comes as a surprise to whom? You mean, giving the Palestinians the Gaza strip like they wanted not only didn’t stop the rocket attacks, but actually increased their frequency? Hmm. Whoda’ thunk it? Read More Today's dose of NIF - News, Interesting & Funny ... just the Monday edition Read More I posted this over at QandO as a comment in reaction to a few other posters, but I thought it should stand here as well. I didn't vote for Bush, but I agree with the War in Iraq, and I Read More If the Washington Post editorial reflects the mood of Americans, then common sense will prevail in the reconstruction: Read More The Air Force, Texas National Guard and Air National Guard have been nobly serving their home state in the effort to bring relief to those in need after Rita. Read More This is at the least, interesting: According to the study, belief in and worship of God are not only unnecessary for a healthy society but may actually contribute to social problems. The study counters the view of believers that religion... Read More "President" Geena Davis Tonight, Tuesday, Charmaine at Reasoned Audacity will be live blogging the first episode of the ABC network series featuring a female president in the White House. Charmaine will compare and contrast leadership styles of the Ex... Read More After their long publicized two-year relationship, actress Demi Moore and actor Ashton Kutcher were married in Los Angeles on Saturday. Trouble began early when Moore almost married the ring bearer in a bit of confusion that was attributed to “failin... Read More Today's winner is Blogspot Read More It’s not just Rangel’s calling Bush a modern Bull Connor. It’s not just Farrakhan’s nutty ideas that Bush had Navy Seals blow up the levees. The stigma of racism is again being picked up by every liberal who wishes Bush wasn’t president. Chris Matthe... Read More Terrorist apologists have been saying London and Rome are terrorist targets because their governments support U. S. policies in Iraq. Now we learn Paris is a terrorist target. Will apologists begin to get the message the terrorists are sending us a... Read More Americans for a Safe Israel has done the right thing to alert the US Congress on Capitol Hill to the injustices being conducted by the Israeli Supreme Court, as Barry Freedman of the New York Jewish Star reports on his Galilee Blog. Read More 2 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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Here is tonite's movie.
Mercenary Sniper in Iraq (2005)
Hard to tell what branch this is. Maybe someone can identify them. I'm thinking SO of some kind.
If it doesn't start after ad, click on title down on right where it shows "playing".
Also on the far right there are other movies of note.
I know its not PC, but get some popcorn and enjoy the movies.
Papa Ray
West Texas
USA
Can't get trackback to work today...
Post up at Iraq War Today
Three Cheers for the Coalition
Listen to the mainstream media and leftie politicians, and you're left with the impression that we're virtually alone in Iraq...But the truth is that there IS a coalition in Iraq -
One night, my unit was carrying out a ground operation. It requested and received air support from an allied military unit.