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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 29, 2005 Open PostBy Holly AhoI'll have to dig around for a nice picture to rival Greyhawk's! Unless he'd like to add one here... Okay, Greyhawk here:  All Aboard! Posted by Holly Aho / September 29, 2005 12:20 AM | Permalink 27 TrackBacksMedia- saavy al-Qaeda released an internet video entitled Voice of the Caliphate on Monday. The video showed a short newscast that reported on recent events, such as the gulf coast hurricanes and the Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. Read More I was emailed by the Democratic Party at the address I have for a deranged monkey to apply to be co-writer of this blog. Dear Deranged, Why do you think I would actually be named "Deranged?" Apparently, I may be deranged, but you're stupi... Read More The Smoking Gun has a copy of the indictment. As best as I can tell, two other guys did something wrong with campaign funds, and then at the end they mention Delay as doing something. Being a Republican I think. I'm not a lawyer, so I don't know sectio... Read More If you didn't see the show the other night when Rangel was made to look like a blundering idiot, ya gotta watch this video over at The Political Teen. Rangel is the news right now because of some ridiculous and Read More …Connor slander. We mentioned Congressman Charles Rangel’s hate-mongering slander of President Bush, comparing the president of the United States to segregationist “Bull” Connor a few days ago. Michelle Malkin notes the refus... Read More According to the Associated Press Stylebook and Libel Manual, obscenities, profanities, and vulgarities are not to be used in a newspaper story "unless they are part of direct quotations and there is a compelling reason for them." That rule is going... Read More Faced with low ratings and lower still revenues, liberal radio network Air America has offered up some creative solutions to help ease their well-documented financial woes as well as their flagging popularity. We pitted our talent head-to-head against ... Read More ... or you can open your mouth and prove you are. Exhibit 1: Dan RatherMarvin Kalb: You said, I believe you just said, that you think the story is accurate. Dan Rather: Well, the story is accurate.That's not from last Read More This is the first post in a series that looks at how MSM can spin and twist a story to fit its Leftist agenda. The recent "anti-war" rally in Washington exposed how a major MSM paper pitched for the Left. Here's Chapter I Read More Sen. Warner should ask Sec. Rumsfeld about these detentions and what measures are being taken to keep the lines of communication open between military and media in Iraq. Read More The 101st Airborne Division is in the process of deploying back to Iraq. (The Division was last there in 2003). Some advance units have been there since August, and larger units are now starting to deploy, with units going in stages till around Novem... Read More The mainstream media are not blushing. They will continue down their arrogant Iraq-as-model reporting path, accentuating the negative with questionable facts and half-truths. And when they err, they will develop a news cycle reporting on the error with... Read More In an interview with USA Today, NASA Administrator Michael Griffin admits that much of the past 30 years of the space program has been one big mistake. Read More I am a liberal who supported the decision to invade Iraq (the why will be a future blog). And I supported the idea that once we were in there, it became our responsibility to make it successful. Not just that Read More P.J. O'Rourke wrote one of the truest and funniest books about Congress called Parliament of Whores and if you haven't read it you have cheated yourself. 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Read More Is Paul Krugman writing editorials for the Washington Post now? Read More On 9/9/05, I pondered the rising angst with "RED TAPE" in the context of not enough relief efforts for Katrina working well. That horrible stuff that binds us in inaction, particularly when we need any level of governmental office to do what we want... Read More U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay has been indicted (.pdf) by Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle. Roy Blunt of Missouri will take over as Majority Leader as DeLay steps down, pursuant to the GOP caucus rules. Note in this... Read More The NYCLU is continuing its campaign against military recruiting. But it’s hard to figure out what they’re objecting to. Even Nat Hentoff former ACLU board member and a Village Voice columnist, could not rationalize the groups stance. "This is a pol... Read More Michael Yon made me cry. Read it. Pass it around. Thanks to Mudville Gazette for the Open Post. ... Read More The ACLU, who claim to be Americas guardian of liberty is ironically the most active religious censor in America. For nearly two generations it has relentlessly forced countless communities into submission when it comes to public expression of faith,... Read More AP is reporting, A Texas grand jury on Wednesday charged Rep. Tom DeLay and two political associates with conspiracy in a campaign finance scheme, an indictment that could force him to step down as House majority leader. […] House Republican Par... 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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This is fantastic! Great job. BTW, If I want to link a story I've written, where and how would I go about it? TB to the article itself, or TB here? (I'm a little new to group tb!) Thanks. Have a great day!