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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! October 6, 2005 Open PostBy Mrs Greyhawk Posted by Mrs Greyhawk / October 6, 2005 8:55 PM | Permalink 29 TrackBacksDadmanly and BW revive Debate Space with an initial debate on liberal bias. Canadian BW says there isn't one, that the bias is towards the sensational, while Dadmanly says there sure is liberal bias! Read More Mrs. Dadmanly shared with me some questions our son has been asking, and they're the kind of questions a Mom or a Dad sometimes might have trouble with, but we know they are very, very important. Read More Speaking to the National Endowment for Democracy this morning, President Bush gave what may be the finest speach on the global war on terror of his presidency. The transcript can be found on the White House web site here. Recently our country observe... 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Read More Mostly missing from the debate on the war is an informed sense of historical or political theory, a real sense of history. The language of such discourse has truly declined in America,part of a broader educational trend. This is not really news. It h... Read More There’s a flood of War Memoirs coming out of Iraq over the next few weeks and NPR’s Talk of the Nation did an audio story with guests, Colby Buzzell of the blog, My War and book My War: Killing Time in Iraq (rank # 2703 at Amazon) and Nate Fick, Auth... Read More I’m listening to O’Reilly and he is talking to Commander Thomas Bock of the American Legion, of which I am proudly a member of. Thomas Bock says that the ACLU does not stand for American values, but the American Legion does. They think t... Read More Conservative cannibalism had begun. The left enjoyed the entertainment. 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Hi Everyone, A great end of the 3rd quarter for the LWT as follows: Total 3rd Quarter, 2005: 30,122 letters Total Letters January - September, 2005: 73,656 letters A gi... Read More If you haven't considered buying this CD you really should. The lyrics alone will make you cry at times. These guys have done an incredible job considering how they produced this CD. Read More From the Progressive: Selina Jarvis is the chair of the social studies department at Currituck County High School in North Carolina, and she is not used to having the Secret Service question her or one of her students. But that’s... Read More 6 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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Awwww. When you think that NATO bombs such things.
Ah firenze!! La citta piu bella di tutti le citte!
" Top 9 Fabulous Ramadan Gag Gifts For The Islamofascist In Your Life "
Man, I am not a Islamofascist and I have urge to blow this guy.
Mrs. Grayhawk I have post this blog's address to the Islamic societies in US, UK and many other countries. I have post this on Internet sites where Islam people are communicating in global manner. Also, I published your URL on some frequent blogs, portals, forums and discussion boards. In matter of hours, thousands of people will come to your board and will find that American soldiers call Islam fascist and mock Ramadan.
I am a Christian.
The officials of US military will tell that you are examples of what US soldier is not and that people like you belong with England.
To have patriotism is one thing. To be xenophobic is the other, completely different thing. Horrible. And disgusting.
Sinke
I recognize that English is not your first language, so I'll try to tell you where you're mistaken. The individual who wrote the post you're commenting about is not in the US military. The post is also satire, from a site that produces satire - this concept may not translate well to your language, maybe I should say it is not serious - though that is not completely true. Serious issues are at the heart of all satire. But you're characterization of it as being directed at all people of Islam is wrong.
In America we not only tolerate free speech, we celebrate it. Thus posts like that one and responses to it in comments are both allowed here - although they are not made by or endorsed by anyone actually associated with this site. That's the entire reason for the Open Post - a place for others to express their views. I can offer no better explanation of the concept than to point out what you've missed - your comments are allwed to stand here, when with a simple push of a button I could make them go away.
This site will always be one where people are free to express their views. We believe that most of our readers are intelligent and thoughtful people, and can recognize good ideas and bad ideas alike, and make up their own minds.
As for the Islamic world, please note the numerous links we provide to our many friends in the blogosphere who represent everything good about that culture. We respect and admire them, and believe their voices are as important as any - and more so than many - in discussions of world events. Such thinking is common in America, at least among most Americans I know. We grow up living in a land of many cultures, with people from diverse backgrounds whose heritage is from all the other peoples of the world. Personally I've also travelled extensively in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East - including Iraq. I find the characterization of groups over individuals repulsive. There are good and bad members of all groups and all societies everywhere, from al Fasher in Sudan to Washington, DC; from London England to Tokyo Japan; from Baghdad Iraq to Zagreb, Croatia.
Here's a quote from Alexander Solzhenitsyn you should know: "If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being, and who is willing to destroy his own heart?"
I will condemn without hesitation those who would drive a car bomb into a group of children, slaughter aid workers, assassinate judges or elected officials - I believe their actions are not sanctioned by any religion anywhere. Likewise I will denounce any soldier combating such evil who succumbs to that darkness of the human soul themselves.
By all means, invite who you wish to join the discussion. Here they'll find freedom of speech, and freedom from fear of ideas. We'll recognize hate and intolerance when we see it, we'll strive to clear any misunderstandings that will inevitably arise. We'll celebrate added voices, and in some small way perhaps elevate understanding among peoples of the world.
Let me tell you something about freedom of speech in modern democracy.
In communism you are given mind, so that everbody has the same mind.
In liberal democracy everybody can say whatever they want as long as they don't ask the government to care about their opinions.
I am white. There are black people. We are not the same. To say that white people and black people are equall is trash. The black people live much worse than I do, mister American soldier. If you are a bank owner, you don't have to be a racist to preform racism.
You know pretty well that there are many desk clerks working in banks. I have never seen a bank in US, and in the rest of the world, which would hire all black people as desk clerks. Imagine twenty black people working in bank at desk. Everybody would notice that twenty black people are working as desk clerks. Nobody would even think about skin color if here were twenty white man working on the desk. And after a while, an advisor of the bank will tell you that people feel bad because of them and if you wish to work with material gain you need to fire them, the black people.
You know,I have never heard any of you Americans saying these things in public. Well, not at least white Americans. If you would say this in Oprah, you would see the real limits of your free speech.
But what can I do? I'm just a guy living in a country somewhere, waiting for US to come after me. I even can't write descent english. Dang, the blacks in slums can't write anything but I write english.
Be kind, sir. Delete all my messages. I don't care. For all of this, I don't care. You are an American soldier, I respect that. Here I said that. I could say that I don't and that wouldn't change anything because you know as well as I that people in Iraq were drafted in US Army because they had no other choice. They live in poor houses and made their first child when they were 17. And if somebody would ask them something, they could say something. They could say something like that they should have the same chances as I do, sitting in armchair with my 1000$ laptop, and that I was only lucky. Man, I bought Playstation! And I smoke Marlboro.
They could say that there is something really wrong with your society when on internet news white people are "salvaging" but black people are "looting." The audience is shocked, they talk about it, and whatever. Martin Luther King was shot, and today black people are in some places in your country afraid to light up a candle because somebody could notice that somebody is lighting a candle for Martin Luther King. And in other places, people light up fireworks for Martin Luther King but the next day nothing changes. And you can yell that nothing changes. And if your free speech would really mean something, maybe somebody would start listening, mister.
Here is my free speech. If a blackman would call me white-trash, he would go to prison.
If I would call him a niggggga I would go to prison, but there would be a certain difference. There would be a certain dosage of a dirty racism- that a black person should be grateful to legal system of the United States of America that a Mickey Whitey ended up in prison for calling him names.
I as white don't. "That is why we are here."
Delete my messages, sir.
They are not of any use to you, me, Americans, Iraq, Bush, Blair, Croats, Serbs, Muslims, Russians, Communists, Capitalists, Sarajevo, Belgrade, Zagreb, Tokio, Japan and whatever.
If they were, this world would be beautiful thousands of years ago.
Maybe you should ask black people.
But.... who cares what they can say for free?
Would somebody give computer with Internet link to the blackman so he would refute me? Oh, you don't do that. Why? Thanks for the answer, I have a feeling Mr. Bush is after me.