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36 TrackBacksThe ACLU and The Communist Party have announced that they will be officially joining together as early as Spring of 2006. This comes as a surprise to no one familiar with the work of either of the two groups. It's Read More ...By effectively shutting off all relevant facts about the case, Fitzgerald caused a rush of mainstream media speculation about Hinrichs, a story which until now had only been covered by blogs and local media... Read More Crank telephone call from comedian Roy Wood, Jr. About 4.6 meg mp3 file. Language warning. Probably NSFW. Thanks to Mudville Gazette for the Open Post.... Read More Some news is coming out of the Senate concerning more transparency concerning pork. I don't know much of the details, other than the interview that Jed Babbin had with Senator Coburn of Oklahoma, the amendments sponsor. The actual text of Read More In the end, the most important question in the whole Wilson/Plame/Rove/Libby/Fitzgerald/ … /Cooper/Miller/Iraq/Niger/mint-tea-gate “scandal” is: why in the world was Joe Wilson sent to Niger in the first place? Remember, this was ... Read More Former Vanity Fair and New Yorker editor Tina Brown lays it on the NY Times like I've seen no other MSM journalist do it. I say she mocks The Times. Read what Brown says and see if you don't agree. Please let me know what you think. Read More Oops - forgot the [sarcasm off] html tag before I wrote that title. The latest from Ms. Feinstein regarding the Harriet Miers nomination is quite instructive regarding her views on democracy and constitutional law issues. Regardless of how one fe... Read More Tom DeLay does his Perp-Walk Lite, Weldon is reading the riot act to his colleagues, Rove told Libby or Libby told Rove or Deep Throat told Judy Miller or something, and Harriet Miers had her term paper returned for further clarification. Amidst all o... Read More Yep, Louisiana is an honest state. Corruption is nothing more than an old stereotype. American taxpayers can trust us, we're not corrupt anymore. Read More The most perfect example I have seen of why liberals and progressives have become marginalized by the majority of America can be read here Read More The National Resources Defence Council has sued the U.S. Navy over the use of mid-frequency sonar during training exercises, alleging harm to marine mammals. I've discussed before the problems the Navy has responding to hysterical attacks of this natu... Read More The Senate passed the bill in late July with a vote of 65-31. Today, the House passed the same bill by a vote of 283-144. Read More Why does the indicted former Majority Leader of The House of Representatives look so damned happy? Is it the beaming smile? Is it the caked stage make-up? Is it the great lighting? Could it be the tooth whitening? Nope. It is none of... Read More As a mom, a grandmother and an owner of a construction company, Pfc. Terrill Stewart wears many hats. Now one of them just happens to be a beret. Stewart graduated basic training at Fort Jackson, S.C., Oct. 14. Read More Sites with Open Trackbacks for this weekend (it will update often, so keep checking back) Read More Terrorism Bush urges Abbas crack down more on militants — Steve Holland, Reuters U.S.President George W. Bush pressured Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday to crack down on "armed gangs" to advance a peace process he acknowledged may not lea... Read More Deserters are people for which I have no sympathy. Charles Robert Jenkins, a former U.S. Army Sergeant, is a deserter who left his squad in South Korea for communist North Korea in 1965. He recently spoke about his experiences in an interview with 60... Read More Tom DeLay could not have handled this better. The left in this country was salivating over the spectacle of seeing him hauled away in handcuffs and given the obligatory “perp walk”. Instead Congressman Tom DeLay turned himself in, well groomed sporti... Read More TGIF! Thank God I’m FREE! C’mon and trackback! Put up a post that you think deserves some special attention from this past week. Watch for Open Trackbacks here on Fridays, Sundays and Wednesdays. Here is the trackback link to this... Read More Every now and then it occurs to me that since the first hominids evolved in Africa, then technically, under the terms of the one-drop rule, the entire human population is African-American. This means we can throw out all these stupid... Read More Hat tip: Jack Lewis.Net Yesterday we reported how the UN and ACLU had teamed up against America. Today, Alan Sears has an excellent column at World Net Daily. In 2003, the ACLU sponsored a major conference titled “Human Rights at Home: Intern... Read More Well, this is not fun. Tom DeLay smiled in his mug shot. The attempted perpwalk frogmarch by liberals and their media handmaidens failed, much to the delight of News Busters: Read More As Hurricane Wilma looms in the Gulf of Mexico with a trajectory taking it into the western portions of Florida, I think the following discussion warrants consideration. In lieu of the fact that just in the last year, Florida was sent virtually stagg... Read More A nuclear presence in the hands of an unfriendly nation in our hemisphere is no more acceptable now than it was Back in 1962. In fact, tomorrow is the anniversary of JFK informing the world that the Soviet Union was building secret missile bases in C... Read More It's another open trackback party. If you have any cool articles you want people to read post them in my trackbacks and I will prominently display them on my main page. Trackback URL http://haloscan.com/tb/brutus1964/112990647792663133 Read More Terrorism Palestinian Leader Is Urged To Confront Militant Groups — Glenn Kessler, Washington Post President Bush urged Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas yesterday to begin confronting "armed gangs" thwarting peace between Israelis and Palestinians... Read More More Hurricane Katrina Debit Card Abuse Syndicated radio talk show host Neal Boortz says FEMA debit cards were also used to pay for breast implants. While that particular assertion stands as unconfirmed at the moment, Independent Sources was not goin... Read More Wanted: An intelligent liberal blogger who can try to challenge my ideas. Any applicant must be capable of thought beyond "Bush lied, Bush lied, Halliburton, Halliburton;" Read More It is time again for the weekend trackback party. I am not sure who will participate though it seems like everyone is getting in on the fun! Feel free to link to this or any other post and trackback as many times as you like. UPDATE 1: Others ha... Read More I must say this is great news. How refreshing it is that those who use a gun in an unlawful manor will be held accountable rather than the manufacture. We should also cheer the Cheese Burger Bill, too. By LAURIE Read More Abortion is a touchy subject no matter who you talk to, whichever side they fall on, they have an opinion that they feel strongly about. In fact, the debate usually makes me cry. You can read the catalyst for my opinion on it here. I want to show ya&#... Read More TITLE: What's the UN Supposed To Use? Harsh Language? URL: http://lawhawk.blogspot.com/2005/10/whats-un-supposed-to-use-harsh.html IP: 192.189.228.130 BLOG NAME: A Blog For All DATE: 10/21/2005 07:53:51 PM Read More The Babes Weekend Trackback Bash is getting started early...You know how to play... link and trackback something you want folks to read....and as usual, sit back and have one on the Babes. Other parties to crash: MacStansbury (notice you're #1 Read More Today's winner is the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice. Read More Terrorism Suicide bombing kills at least 5 in Israel — CNN Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for an apparent suicide bombing that killed at least five people in the northern Israeli city of Hadera, Israel authorities said. Israeli warplanes pound ... Read More Open Post 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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