 |  |
 
October 2012
August 2012 July 2012 May 2012 April 2012 March 2012 December 2011 November 2011 October 2011 September 2011 August 2011 July 2011 June 2011 May 2011 April 2011 March 2011 February 2011 January 2011 December 2010 November 2010 October 2010 September 2010 August 2010 July 2010 June 2010 May 2010 April 2010 March 2010 February 2010 January 2010 December 2009 November 2009 October 2009 September 2009 August 2009 July 2009 June 2009 May 2009 April 2009 March 2009 February 2009 January 2009 December 2008 November 2008 October 2008 September 2008 August 2008 July 2008 June 2008 May 2008 April 2008 March 2008 February 2008 January 2008 December 2007 November 2007 October 2007 September 2007 August 2007 July 2007 June 2007 May 2007 April 2007 March 2007 February 2007 January 2007 December 2006 November 2006 October 2006 September 2006 August 2006 July 2006 June 2006 May 2006 April 2006 March 2006 February 2006 January 2006 December 2005 November 2005 October 2005 September 2005 August 2005 July 2005 June 2005 May 2005 April 2005 March 2005 February 2005 January 2005 December 2004 November 2004 October 2004 September 2004 August 2004 July 2004 June 2004 May 2004 April 2004 March 2004 February 2004 January 2004 December 2003 November 2003 October 2003 September 2003 August 2003 July 2003 June 2003 May 2003 April 2003 March 2003 February 2003 January 2003
     |
 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 25, 2005 Open PostBy GreyhawkWith one of my favorite photos from Iraq:  Posted by Greyhawk / October 25, 2005 10:22 PM | Permalink 33 TrackBacksAre you trapped in the middle of the battlefield with the stench of rotting corpses ruining the flavor of your MRE’s? Are you sick and tired of breaking your back trying to dig shallow graves in rocky, hard-packed soil? Now the power of the world’s m... Read More Have you noticed the media's macabre fascination with what the AP call’s “the grim milestone of the 2000th US military death looming in Iraq?” In one case it was in an article titled, “Iraq Insurgency Shows No Signs of Abating.” All of a sudden, it i... Read More Today's dose of NIF - News, Interesting & Funny ... Kerry-180 Tuesday! Read More Back in late July, during the early days following the nomination of John Roberts, much was made of the request from Senate Democrats for the release of White House documents related to his service to two administrations. I was against it then, and I ... Read More Now, my question is this: Why do the Left, and specifically the Usual Suspects from the vocal black community get SOOO up in arms every time the racist white media "focuses" on "only" the black looters and rioters, like they did in New Orleans (riiii... Read More I was a little disappointed by my encounter with Mr. Galloway when he was here to speak against the war and the US in general. Read More DDT, PCB’s, SMOG, MTBE, DIOXIN - the list of “hazardous chemicals” that have invaded our past is lengthly and can bring forth a twinge of fear from our memory banks. Now I’ll discuss some of the bioscience that contradicts such... Read More Al Franken reacted angrily yesterday to a customer at a New York City signing party for his new book, Stuart Smalley: Alone Again With My Cats. The man, Daniel Belmont, approached Franken to have the book signed, but was savagely Read More This morning, we woke to the news that Civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks has died at the age of 92. Parks, of course, is credited with starting the a 380 day bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama that was the beginning of the modern civil rights movement.... Read More I guess it's party time for the "anti-war" crowd. ... Lest anyone be left in doubt, yes I do mourn Staff Sgt. Alexander's death, just as I mourn every one of our military deaths; just as I mourned the deaths of the friends I lost in Viet Nam. On the o... Read More While you can't send history and tradition to secure the flank, I will say that it makes an intangible difference. If you don't believe me, go ask the Cavalry. Read More Anyone wondering what their blog is worth? My blog is worth $22,017.06.How much is your blog worth? Well, that's what they say our's is worth, at least by what Technorati uses based on the AOL-Weblogs Inc financial deal. We'll take Read More Many Europeans nations are experiencing slow economic growth, low birth rates, and increasing inability to meet social service demands. Is America headed in the same direction. Economist and author James Glassman provides some information and suggest... Read More Brian at The Blue State Conservative has come up with a great idea for those of you who like to participate in open trackback parties, and for those who host them. The Open Trackback Provider Blogroll. Add this Blogroll to your site So far, onl... Read More Via WND A South Carolina senator dissatisfied with the results of a Bush advisory panel’s recommendations on tax reform is set to introduce a bill to abolish federal income tax in favor of a levy on business transactions. Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S... Read More Could some Hardcore lefty please explain to me the reason you guys think that you have a story with this Rove/Plame/Libby/Wilson thing. I still don't get how it's even a story never mind the fact that it's a story you guys seem to be banking on to get ... Read More I started this series, to illuminate some of the more salient points in the argument of right and wrong, in the war. My purpose, is to point out some of the glaring hypocrisies and inconsistencies, of many of the anti-war Read More Baltimore/Washington Corridor Chamber of Commerce Your Business Blogger has been on both sides of the table as buyer and seller in government procurement. Today I worked with a client selling to the public sector, working at the Baltimore/Washington A... Read More Here at Radioactive Liberty, I strive to provide you with content. So there you have it... Content. You may ask, quality content? No, just content. I don't want to set the bar to high. That could lead to disappointment, and I don't want to be a disappo... Read More (This is the first of a multi-part series I introduced, entitled "Conclusion.") In some ways, I'm a War Correspondent. Read More When they cannot prove a crime in Washington, they prove a cover-up. And if someone complains, they cry hypocrisy. And so Howard Kurtz of CNN crying hypocrisy. His target, Kay Bailey Hutchison. Read More October 25th. No year attached, just a day of the year. As I researched some connections I have to this day in 1998, I have discovered it's interesting how so many battles of historical note happened on this day. Read More It seems to me the press wanted to this "milestone" to occur precisely when it did so that it could be used to overshadow the real milestone that occurred today: The ratification of the Iraqi Constitution. Read More We commented, briefly on on this story last week. Governor Blanco and her allies are one thing and that's arrogant. They have refused to reconsider the outrageous decisions of last week's meeting. Only one member of the Louisiana Bond Commission had ... Read More Blue State Conservative has an interesting idea–a blogroll for people who offer trackbacks at least once a week. I run an open trackback post 3x a week, so here goes. This is Wednesday’s a tad early. Trackback as many posts as you wan... Read More I'm a bit bemused by all the carefully orchestrated outrage and assorted histrionics over the “magic number 2000” as the death toll in Iraq. Why is one number any different than another? Is this some sort of line in the sand, some sort of doctrinal m... Read More Number 2000. To the left, the radicals at A.N.S.W.E.R. and to Al Frankin and all the idiots that can't think about the war except in terms of "Get Bush" Number 2000 is Staff Sgt. George T. Alexander Jr., 34, of Killeen, Texas, died Saturday in San Anto... Read More During the hubub of yesterday's activity, Wayne called. A little unusual, I thought, especially since I had talked with him online just the day before. After a few minutes of idle chit chat, he spurted, "Yea, we just got mortared..." Read More Bill Quick wrote this today:The reason Republicans have problems in maintaining a hold on power - the kind of hold the Democrats maintained for decades - is that if the public must be bribed with pork in order to keep Read More The grim milestone has been achieved, much to the delight of the terrorists and the mainstream media. Both have a vested interest in celebrating Coalition battle deaths and undermining the will to fight. For the terrorists, the goal is to Read More We have reached the milestone that is not a milestone, the mark that is nothing more than an accounting of death, not a recital of worth. You’ll see it in every newspaper, every pundit’s essay, hear it from every vaccillic Read More Well, it’s time for Cindy Sheehan to land in Washington, DC, have her little ‘get-together’ in front of the White House, and tie herself to the fence! Can’t wait to see the action – handcuffs and all! One crazy lady! Read More Corbis ImagesFor Thursday October 27th Updates scroll down If we are to believe Steve Clemons from The Washington Note : An uber-insider source has just reported the following to TWN (since confirmed by another independent source): 1. 1-5 indictments are 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 |
Comments (0) |
|
The Mudville Gazette is the on-line voice of an American warrior and his wife who stands by him. They prefer to see peaceful change render force of arms unnecessary. Until that day they stand fast with those who struggle for freedom, strike for reason, and pray for a better tomorrow.
 
 
 Furthermore, I will occasionally use satire or parody herein. The bottom line: it's my house. I like having visitors to my house. I hope you are entertained. I fight for your right to free speech, and am thrilled when you exercise said rights here. Comments and e-mails are welcome, but all such communication is to be assumed to be 1)the original work of any who initiate said communication and 2)the property of the Mudville Gazette, with free use granted thereto for publication in electronic or written form. If you do NOT wish to have your message posted, write "CONFIDENTIAL" in the subject line of your email. Original content copyright © 2003 - 2011 by Greyhawk. Fair, not-for-profit use of said material by others is encouraged, as long as acknowledgement and credit is given, to include the url of the original source post. Other arrangements can be made as needed. Contact: greyhawk at mudvillegazette dot com  Tending Distant Far from hearth and home, watching What tales we'll tell When things grim Some distant sunset, vision fading Saluting fallen friends whose names - Greyhawk, Baghdad, December 2004 |
The king was crowned and left his throne.
Our Honor - Your Home
Jacksonville, Florida's year-long salute to the men and women of the Armed Forces
http://www.ourhonor-yourhome.com/OurHonor-YourHome/
Mission Statement: To honor Jacksonville’s standing as a proud military city and show appreciation to the thousands of military personnel and their families who call this city home.
Our Honor… Your Home: Armed Forces Jacksonville is a unique celebration of Jacksonville’s proud standing as a military city. More than 30,000 active military personnel and their families currently live in Jacksonville. In the next few months an additional 2,700 will also call our city home.
Please join the City of Jacksonville, local businesses and other organizations in honoring these fine military men and women who not only protect and serve our country, but also contribute enormously to the fiber our community. You will find military men and women and their family members coaching Little League teams, leading fundraising efforts, teaching Sunday school and playing active roles in the PTA all over the First Coast!
Throughout the next year, Our Honor…Your Home will continue its celebration of our military with an interactive Web site, a series of special events, media coverage that take an in-depth look at the lives of our military neighbors, specialty items that underscore Jacksonville’s commitment to its military citizens, and a military discount program allowing area businesses to express their appreciation to our service men and women.