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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 7, 2005 Open PostBy Mrs Greyhawk  
Posted by Mrs Greyhawk / October 7, 2005 8:00 PM | Permalink 44 TrackBacksThe litany of woes associated with the post-stardom lives of former child actors is well-documented and has been the subject of not a few VH-1 specials. Many a precocious lad and lass who brought us great joy in their early Read More It goes without saying that the national press have been slow to jump on the Chuck Schumer/Michael Steele story. What story, you say? Oh, only the one that is quite reminiscent of Watergate, but in reverse. ... Read More Zawahiri, Bin Laden's #2 wrote to Zarqawi in Iraq and the news is all bad for Al-Qaeda. They are poor, defeated in Afghanistan and losing the battle for hearts and minds on the Muslim street Read More Fort Knox Commander Maj. Gen. Terry Tucker, who will relinquish command of the Armor School and post to Maj. Gen. Robert Williams Wednesday, sat for a final interview Sept. 29 with the Turret. Read More So far I've been sitting back watching without saying anything about the Harriet Miers nomination, but I guess it's time to put my thoughts on the record. Were there more obviously qualified candidates available? Yes, there were. Does that mean Read More …by comparing Harriet Miers to Ted Kennedy. Charles Krauthammer has a column in the Washington Post today called “Withdraw This Nominee“. The column is fair, honest, and pretty brutal. A couple of excerpts: When in 1962 Edward Moo... Read More I guess Lynndie England was unavailable for the awards dinner. Read More Today's winner is Florida Circuit Court Judge Joseph Will. Read More ...Just hours after the announcement that ElBaradei and the IAEA had been selected to receive the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize, the Nobel Commission itself announced the development of their first, low-yield nuclear device.... Read More This is the first of what we hope will be a series of articles about aspects of the War on Terror that are not considered real news. The Army Core of Engineers and the Iraqi Ministry of the Interior, together... Read More The FBI has identified an individual who worked in the White House while spying for a foreign country. He first went to work at the W. H. during the Clinton administration as an aide to Vice President Gore, and stayed on for a period of time on Vice ... Read More Did you miss the speech given by President Bush yesterday? Not surprisingly, it wasn't covered in the MSM. He got all the big words right and said them faster than a tongue twister - not how they'd like him to be portrayed I guess....smart and on top o... Read More TGIF! Thank God I’m FREE! Gotcha, didn’t I? I have inline trackbacks now, so you can trackback and it will SHOW UP without opening the comments section! It’ll be published right out in the open! Voila! GO FOR IT! Put up one ... Read More According to ABC News: The New York City Police Department is investigating what it deems a credible tip that 19 operatives have been deployed to New York to place bombs in the subway, and security in the subways will be Read More CENTCOM has a nice little website with the most detailed information on pertainant military issues you`ll find anywhere, and I`ve added them to the Blogroll. Here`s the type of articles you`ll find there: Close quarters combat training preps Afghans Story Read More TITLE: My Soldier. URL: http://rightwingsparkle.blogspot.com/2005/10/my-soldier.html IP: 70.240.181.244 BLOG NAME: Rightwingsparkle DATE: 10/08/2005 12:48:51 AM Read More Today marks the 4th year of Operation Enduring Freedom and I discovered this page off of Defend America. Operation Enduring Freedom Marks Four Years WASHINGTON, Oct. 7, 2005 – Four years ago today, America launched its counterattack against terrorism... Read More Having already figured out that Karl Rove, even if he had directly revealed Valerie Plame by name (he did not initially know her name) did not by doing so uncover a covert CIA Agent. Plame had been out in the open for more than 5 years and had in fact... Read More Charmaine Yoest at Reasoned Audacity has a graphic with the Penta-Posse a-top a USA tracked vehicle. Bottom of main page. What is it? Winners will be judged on accuracy and style. Winners will receive a "I think, therefore I blog"... Read More The way out of this is not to wring our hands and worry if the neighbors will hear us fighting. The way out is to be the party we say we are. Read More While the President does have some explaining to do to his base (years of work, volunteer time, and donations to his campaign shouldn't be responded to with a "trust me"), the President may have just been responding to the environment created by an u... Read More It appears, that Judith Miller's discovery of her 'smoking-gun-notes' has just managed to catapult itself to the top of the adminstration's crisis list. Harriet Miers, you may well have a moment of respite, and join all who will hold their breath: Read More Feel free to comment on any subject or leave a trackback for any article you want people to read. linkbacks are appreciated. Trackback Ping: http://haloscan.com/tb/brutus1964/112871653280401502 Read More “We need to attack Jesus…” – atheist Philip Paulson, who filed a lawsuit challenging the presence of the cross on city land in 1989. A California judge has ruled that San Diego’s Proposition A, a voter initiative to preserve... Read More I don't know why this didn't cross my mind earlier. What do Alaska and Iraq have in common?? OIL. What does Alaska have that Iraq currently does not? A permanent fund dividend. Read More The Poindexter Awareness Office has identified Harriet Miers as the stealth anti-Poindexter candidate most capable of mitigating the Poindextrous damage caused by pointy-headed justices David Souter and the Supremes in the areas of eminent domain and... Read More However, it seems clear to me that McCain – at present – is a lot more concerned about how we treat enemy prisoners/detainees, than about how many of our boys are getting shot and/or blown up Read More According to Steven Thomma at Knight Ridder Newspapers, the conservative talk radio shows may actually have peaked. After reading the article, even I had to admit that I don't listen quite as much as I formerly did. Not a big Read More Hat tip: California Conservative Time Hath Found Us. “We need to attack Jesus…” - atheist Philip Paulson, who filed a lawsuit challenging the presence of the cross on city land in 1989. A California judge has ruled that San Diego’s... Read More (Note to the Greyhawks -- you can delete the first trackback; the link was busted.) Let's not shoot both him and us in the foot ... by misunderestimating him ourselves. Don't perceive his actions as "weakness" -- IMO, what he is doing is deploying a ... Read More Your source for all the Weekend Trackback action. All of it. I aint kidding. Updated constantly, so check back often. Read More Michelle Malkin reports on the NYPD's investigation of terrorist threats against the subway system in the Big Apple. Read More Time for the Weekend Link Whorage Open Trackback Post Covered Fest Carnival Dish! [This WLWOTPCFCD post will be updated with other open trackback post links as they become available.] If you have something you’d like others to read, link to thi... Read More I will start the weekend trackback party early this week. Trackback any and all posts to this site over the weekend. This will be updated with bloggers who are also having a party. I pinged a few of you folks who participated last week. Jump back ... Read More My column in today's Saturday Gazette-Mail: Read More The other day Army Girl and I were talking about the Milblogs and she told me there were no "Milblog Banners" that featured a FEMALE soldier. I thought that was something that should be remedied, so I made one up. Anyone is free to use it - just down... Read More My wife and I met over 8 years ago on an Army exercise. Our first date was to see the movie "Con Air" with Nicholas Cage. In the movie Nick's character calls his wife his hummingbird, I thought it was pretty cool, so I started calling my wife (girlfrie... Read More A new spam email is making the rounds. The email claims to have a photo from an upcoming pornographic movie starring Mike Tyson and Jenna Jameson. The email has several characteristics that make me think it's designed to transmit a... Read More Spent Thursday night at the 25th anniversary gala for National Review. The talk, of course, was Harriet Miers. I did my own informal poll on how it's trending for her. One conservative commentator I asked immediately launched into a fairly... Read More An MSM newspaper reports a story of possible spying in the White House with liberal spin that's hard to believe. This is the second post in a series. It links to the first and provides new information. Please take a look. Read More What concerns me most is will this decision increase the dissention in the right side of the Blogosphere started by the appointment of Miers, and if it does, how do we bring everyone back together in time for the 2006 elections. Read More This is the first major natural disaster outside the United States in months. Muhammad ibn Abdullah, spokesman for Allah, said that the earthquake was sent to comfort Muslims who may have felt ignored by the Glorified and Exalted. "In recent weeks, mu... Read More Interesting. Evidently, the folks at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) refute the claims by the White House that foreign terrorists are the largest block of thugs in Iraq. The CSIS starting line up lists some pretty heavy hitter... Read More My partner, who is A Senior Administration Official, noted what happens when marketing people use math. To drive the point home he showed a nice picture of a set of batteries. Yippee. In Mexico, there is a campaign to save sea turtles. To drive the p... Read More |
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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