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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 18, 2005 Open PostBy Mrs GreyhawkSorry Having difficulties with the computer, Sorry, no pics but link away Posted by Mrs Greyhawk / October 18, 2005 2:04 PM | Permalink 41 TrackBacksSo the list of contestants for King of the Cotillion has been narrowed down to 4 finalists. New, and might I say far more flattering, pictures have been provided for your carnal pleasure. Sorry to the ones who didn't Read More Does anyone remember her writhing around in Like a Virgin? Or how about her appearances in Playboy and Penthouse (no links for those publications, guys; this isn't that kind of site)? Remember her very tasteful and wholesome book Sex? She's the only ... Read More The Portland Press Herald in Maine interviews a family whose home and life in Waveland, Mississippi, which is about an hour from New Orleans in Louisiana, was destroyed in the wake of hurricane Katrina. Read More The New York Times reported Sunday that the unusually high turnout for Saturdays vote higher even than the historic election last year indicates that Iraq has fallen into a morass of mob- rule. Read More Males suspected of Dawa party association, or simply of being related to members were rounded up. Any past expression against Saddam or the Baath party was enough. One witness that I encountered spoke of nearly five hundred males killed in the immedi... Read More In his January 2003 State of the Union speech, President Bush said, “The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.” The left has been bleating on about how he lied ev... Read More Initially eight helicopters, five CH-47 Chinooks and three UH-60 Blackhawks, were sent to Islamabad to assist with relief and rescue efforts there. Read More No, this isnt one of my normal Profiles, but I received this note from Mrs. Dadmanly. She wrote this for her final Family Readiness Group (FRG) newsletter. The FRG is a volunteer organization of family members and rear detachment personal who support ... Read More Citizen journalism is profoundly American. The term harkens to our founding when Minutemen stood ready to defend the nation on a minutes notice. But like those Concordians of yore, citizen journalists need some instruction. I have been newspapering... Read More Over at Catallarchy, Scott Scheule argues that the infamous-in-many-quarters decision in Kelo v. City of New London was rightly decided. Read More Following Limbaugh’s outstanding column yesterday, Michael Barone and Tod Lindberg have chimed in with more detailed analysis of just how it was that the Democrat Party has become inextricably mired in a liberal swamp of its own making. ... Read More I confess to being something of a heretic regarding this whole “Porkbusters” crusade that is being championed by some of the heavy hitters in the Shadow Media. ... Read More As the anticipation for Halloween builds, we as parents have to temper our joy in our children's excitement with a healthy dose of caution. There are a litany of concerns that parents face regarding the Halloween season, not the least Read More Today's dose of NIF - News, Interesting & Funny ... It's Kerry-180 Tuesday Read More As you can see, I finally came up with a new name for the blog. I have been wanting to change the name for some time now, but I never could think of anything good. 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My Trackback URL Is: http://haloscan.com/tb/brutus1964/112969636948846220 Read More Today's winners are Darlene Superville and her employer the Associated Press. Read More Saddam Hussein goes on trial today for 143 of his hundreds of thousands of murders. Take a few minutes to read this eyewitness account of his crime from an Iraqi doctor who, as a bewildered seven-year-old, lost 35 relatives that day in 1982. Read More I have on several occasions stated my belief that advertisers are as much victims of spammers as the EMAIL recipients. The basic business model is something like this: Naive new web user X sets up a web site. X sees... Read More Terrorism Chalk It Up To A Costly Rehearsal — Captain's Quarters The city of Baltimore found itself in the same predicament that New York faced a few weeks ago -- a thinly-sourced but unsettlingly specific terrorist threat forced the city... 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Read More Using taxpayers to fund self-aggrandizing projects to gain re-election is a disease that has jumped species in West Virginia from federal officeholder to state legislator. Every delegate and state senator fancies himself as a Bob Byrd mini-me. Read More SAN FRANCISCO, October 18 (OneWorld) - In an unprecedented move, a UN committee has asked human and civil rights groups to submit reports and testify on U.S. breaches of international law, filling a gap left by the U.S. government’s failure to s... Read More Still under the weather. Just click here, here, here, here, here and here. Update: The Waco Kid has a damned good question: Suppose Joel Hinrichs, the Oklahoma “suicide bomber” was a member of a radical pro-life group, and he blew Read More Today's dose of NIF - News, Interesting & Funny ... Just Wednesday Read More 1 Comment |
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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