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World War II POW survivors share their story

Saturday, September 17, 2011, 02:37 AM - News Stories World War II POW survivor to share his story in Mobile Saturday. Louis Zamperini said reciting recipes and song lyrics helped him stay alive while floating for 47 days on a raft after mechanical problems sent his B-24 bomber crashing into the ocean in 1943...
(Press-Register)

92-year-old Wheaton POW shares tales of war. For nearly 45 months, William ?Howie? Chittenden was surrounded by death, hunger and disease. Captured by enemy forces the day Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, he would spend the duration of the World War II's Pacific theater as a prisoner of war...
(Daily Herald)

Researchers skeptical DOD can use social media to predict future conflict. Can Twitter predict insurgent attacks? The Pentagon wants to know, but one group of university researchers already has an inkling of the answer: Doubtful...
(Stripes)

Military 24/7 App Extends to iPhone and iPod touch.? On the heels of the release of the ?Military 24/7? App for iPad, Defense Video & Imagery Distribution System (DVIDS) has launched the free application for iPhone and iPod users. Now, the latest U.S. Military news stories, images and video obtained exclusively from the frontlines can be accessed by millions of Apple consumers...
(iPad News Tracker)

Algerian authorities alarmed by Facebook protest call, blame ?Zionist parties?. The Algerian interior ministry and security forces have been put on high alert in response to a call on Facebook for nationwide protests against President Abdul Aziz Boutefliqa and army generals seen as running the country behind the scenes on Saturday...
(Al Arabiya News)

Blogger Maikel Nabil health deteriorating in prison. Maikel Nabil, the blogger sentenced to three years in prison after writing the blog post, ?the people and the army were never one hand,? is currently suffering major health problems after undergoing a 24-day hunger strike...
(Ahram Online)

Medal of Honor recipient Dakota Meyer tweeting

Friday, September 16, 2011, 02:33 PM - Twitter

Dakota Meyer on Twitter: @Dakota_Meyer

Twitter is one of those places you just have to sometimes take with a grain of salt because people can so easily be impersonated.? It?s happened to plenty of celebrities and public figures.? And it?s easy to be tricked, unless of course, Twitter has gone to the trouble of verifying a person?s identity and displayed a blue "Verified Badge? on their Twitter bio.

Impersonation has even happened to Medal of Honor recipients.

Last November, Staff Sgt. Salvatore Giunta was awarded the nation's highest medal for valor ? the Medal of Honor.? Thousands of people began following him on Twitter, or so they thought.? Turns out, an imposter was tweeting under the username @salvatoregiunta.

@USArmy the Army's official Twitter account (which is verified), pointed out to fans that the account wasn't legit and the account was ultimately suspended by Twitter.

That?s not the case with the nation?s newest Medal of Honor recipient, Marine Sgt. Dakota Meyer.

Dakota Meyer is a Twitter user.

And he?s been busy using Twitter under the username @Dakota_Meyer and has the support of many, including @USMC - The official Twitter account of the United States Marine Corps.

Hours ago, Dakota tweeted:? ?Another big day today. Hall of Heroes induction at the Pentagon followed by Evening Honors Parade. Marine Barracks, Washington DC?

If you?d like to learn more about what he?s up to, you can follow Dakota Meyer here on Twitter.

MoH recipient Dakota Meyer tells his story

Thursday, September 15, 2011, 03:12 AM - News Stories Sgt. Dakota Meyer Tells His Story. Sgt. Dakota Meyer is the first living Marine to be nominated for the Medal of Honor since the Vietnam War, and the actions he took that led him to be nominated was, as he called it, ?just doing the right thing?...
(DoDLive)

What?s it like? US Marines in Afghanistan stay in touch with families but dodge battle talk. ?Baby, I walked on a path today. Everything was clear. Nothing happened.? That?s what U.S. Marine Cpl. Ernest Tubbs, a combat engineer who looks for hidden bombs on patrol, often tells his wife when he has the chance to telephone her in the United States. Many a time, he has lied. Tubbs won?t tell her about the close calls, the near misses, anything about his dangerous job that might rattle the woman he married last year after meeting her on a Florida beach...
(The Washington Post)

A Reporter Shields His Identity and an Iranian Exile Group?s Viewpoint Goes Missing. Reporting on the People?s Mujahedeen of Iran and their complicated plight at Camp Ashraf in Iraq has proved challenging for The New York Times. So when reporter Tim Arango had the opportunity to visit the camp with Ambassador Lawrence E. Butler, an American diplomat negotiating with the group, he took it...
(NYTimes)

Family Member "Emergency" Scam Targets Grandparents, Military Families. Eugene police have received more calls lately about a particular money wire scam.? In it, the scammer calls and says they are your grandchild or other family member and they need money immediately so they can be bailed out of jail out of state or in a foreign country...
(KEZI)

Garden Spot grad tweets his way to launch of NASA rocket. When NASA announced via Twitter that 150 randomly selected winners would get to tour the Kennedy Space Center, hobnob with science notables and witness the launch of moon-bound spacecraft, more than 825 of their followers applied. Two weeks later, Cameron Corrie, a New Holland resident and sophomore at York College of Pennsylvania, found himself on a short list of space-exploration enthusiasts chosen to attend NASA's 25th Tweetup, an event designed to create social media ambassadors for NASA's programs...
(LANCASTEROnline)

Who Do You Think You Are? Alan Carr's war story was fascinating. ?Although the funnyman and chat show host appeared flippant about the whole thing at first ('I thought genealogy was something to do with rocks,' he quipped) it soon became apparent that there was a fascinating backstory behind his hitherto undiscovered family...
(Metro)

War of Tweets between NATO and Taliban

Wednesday, September 14, 2011, 07:21 PM - Twitter This is a topic I still find disturbing because I?m not sure why Twitter allows the Taliban to post hateful messages in violation of Twitter?s TOS.? I wrote about it on Monday and months before.

But it?s a trend that seems to be here to stay, unfortunately.

In the newest ?war of tweets?, NATO?s International Security Assistance Force exchanged messages online with Taliban?s spokesman via Twitter, earlier today.

Jeff Schogol of Stripes writes, "The spat started after Tuesday's attack on the U.S. Embassy and ISAF headquarters in Kabul when ISAF sent out a tweet asking how long the Taliban would continue to put innocent civilians in harm's way."

Jeff has details on how it all unfolded.

Source: Stripes via The Guardian

DVIDS: Marine takes title 'One Man Army'

Wednesday, September 14, 2011, 03:59 AM - News Stories Marine takes title 'One Man Army'. MARINE CORPS AIR STATION MIRAMAR, Calif. - Sgt. Colin M. Bell, an aviation supply specialist with Marine Aviation Logistics Squadron 16 and an Ann Arbor, Mich., native, is the newest winner of Discovery Channel?s television show "One Man Army" during the Sept. 2 episode...
(DVIDS)

Influential Seattle blogger inflames left and right alike about Israeli security issues. By day, he is a 59-year-old stay-at-home dad, caring for three young children and a lazy golden lab, with a game of Hungry Hungry Hippos in the living room and bikes cluttering the porch.By night, he is a sharp-elbowed journalist, writing an influential blog about Israeli security issues that inflames the left and right alike. His posts, pounded out in this basement office cluttered with utility bills and world music CDs, rank Silverstein's in the top 20 among world politics blogs...
(The Seattle Times)

Public invited to hear WWII vet share his story of injury and recovery. World War II veteran Lloyd Walker will speak at 12:30 p.m. Thursday at Evangel University in Zimmerman Hall, Room 208B. Walker is the first of three World War II veterans who will share their stories in Dale Garrett?s Military History class this semester...
(Springfield News-Leader)

How Social Media Is Keeping the Egyptian Revolution Alive. The revolution in Egypt is unfinished business. While new online tools are used to strengthen civil society, activists are still struggling with the digital divide when it comes to mobilizing masses against the army and the remains of the old administration... ?
(PBS)

Attacks gave rise to Instapundit blog. Shortly after jets crashed into the World Trade Center's twin towers on 9/11, University of Tennessee law professor Glenn Reynolds posted a note on his month-old blog, Instapundit...
(Knoxville News Sentinel)

Interview: Director Gary Mortensen ('Shepherds of Helmand'). One of the best things a filmmaker can learn about is a remarkable story no one has captured on film - yet. Director Gary Mortensen discovered just such a tale after completing his first documentary about U.S. soldiers in Iraq. The result is ?Shepherds of Helmand,? a film festival darling available now on DVD...
(Washington Times Communities)

Following 'Soldiers,' To The Battlefield And Back. Filmmaker Heather Courtney didn't set out to make a war story. "I set out to make a story about rural America," she says. Her new documentary, Where Soldiers Come From, is both war story and small-town homecoming saga; it follows a group of young men who sign up for the National Guard, serve in Afghanistan, and then return home to their families in Michigan's woody Upper Peninsula...
(NPR)

Tom Sileo to Paul Krugman: We Are Not Ashamed

Tuesday, September 13, 2011, 03:26 PM

Personally, I think Paul Krugman is one of the most hateful, disgusting people I?ve ever encountered online.?

So, it?s with great pleasure that I post an excerpt from one of my favorite bloggers, Tom Sileo of The Unknown Soldiers.?

Tom?s latest piece called We Are Not Ashamed was written in response to Krugman?s nasty post.

As President Barack Obama and President George W. Bush hugged family members of 9/11 victims at Ground Zero, a New York Times columnist -- widely celebrated in most newsrooms I worked in -- posted a despicable blog entry about the ten difficult years our nation has experienced since the terrorist attacks.

Paul Krugman's blog post is headlined "The Years of Shame." While I will not link to the post and help the author accomplish his goal of exploiting a tragedy to gain readers, it is important to highlight how a columnist who is revered in many media circles has disgraced not only himself, but more importantly the thousands of men and women who have fought in defense of freedom since the 9/11 attacks.

I am not ashamed of Johnny Micheal Spann, 32, a Marine who joined the CIA and later became the first American to lose his life during the war in Afghanistan.

I am not ashamed of Maj. Megan McClung, 34, the highest-ranking female Marine officer to make the ultimate sacrifice in Iraq, which Krugman calls an "unrelated war."

The fallacy of Iraq being "unrelated" to 9/11 is this: thousands of men and women who fought, suffered visible and invisible wounds, and died during this continuing conflict joined the military because of 9/11. That makes their sacrifices directly related to 9/11, whether one agrees with the decision to invade or not.

Read the entire post over at The Unknown Soldiers.

Paul Krugman 9/11 blog post sinks to new low

Tuesday, September 13, 2011, 03:25 AM - News Stories Krugman descends to new lows on 9/11. One cannot begin to imagine what motivates such hatred and contempt for his countrymen, especially on a day when the overriding theme was unity. The president and former presidents spoke without partisanship or rancor. Not Krugman, though. But there is cowardice, too ? he deactivated his reader comments on that spasm for ?obvious reasons.?
(The Washington Post)Paul Krugman 9/11 Blog Post Stokes Controversy.
Paul Krugman drew conservative outrage on Sunday when he wrote that the anniversary of 9/11 had become a marker of "shame" for the U.S...
(Huffington Post)

Rumsfeld objects to Krugman blog post, cancels Times subscription. Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld canceled his subscription to The New York Times in response to a blog post columnist Paul Krugman wrote which Rumsfeld called "repugnant."
(The Hill's Twitter Room)

New Evidence of Pakistan's Hand in the Death of a Journalist. The death of Saleem Shahzad has been shrouded in mystery ever since the Pakistani reporter for the Asia Times Online was found dead in a canal outside Islamabad in late May with 17 lacerated wounds, a ruptured liver, and broken ribs...
(The Atlantic Wire)

Soldiers' tell story of war on terror. For students in Karen Eldred's eighth-grade class at St. Damian School in Westland, Sept. 11, 2001, is something they read about in their history books. They were two years old when terrorists attacked the United States, sparking a war on terror that has taken the U.S. military from Afghanistan to Iraq to Pakistan...
(Observer & Eccentric)

Where Was the Pat Tillman Story on NFL Sunday? But Sunday?while NFL teams around the country commemorated the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks?Pat?s name was mentioned only before the game in Arizona. In stadium after stadium, in pregame show after pregame show, as the NFL?s 9/11 commemoration strategy was rolled out with lockstep discipline, Tillman?s name was conspicuously absent...
(The Nation)

Why do Facebook and Twitter allow Taliban?

Monday, September 12, 2011, 04:05 PM

It?s a well-known fact that the Taliban use social media.

I?ve written about this topic before, with disappointment and disbelief that companies like Twitter won?t put a stop to terrorist organizations using their services even when they know which accounts are being used in clear violation of their terms of service.

Twitter for example has clear Rules (which are part of their terms of service) that state ?You may not publish or post direct, specific threats of violence against others.?? But that hasn?t stopped the Taliban from using Twitter --- tweeting hate, destruction, and other acts of violence against coalition forces.? In May, the chief of staff to the general commanding Canada's combat forces was forced respond to a message posted on the Taliban?s Twitter page falsely claiming it obliterated a Canadian vehicle in the Spin Boldak region.?

Meanwhile, Twitter sits by idle.

Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty published an article earlier this week that appeared in Google News called The Taliban?s Internet Strategy.?? The story describes just how the Taliban have been using the internet, including Twitter and Facebook.? This is the same terrorist organization that as the author points out, once banned photography, movies, and use of the Internet on the grounds that they were all "un-Islamic."

I?m no lawyer, but I think you can make a case that these accounts shouldn?t be allowed.

Roundup: Remembering 9/11 and the military

Sunday, September 11, 2011, 07:27 PM - News Stories Generation goes from Sept. 11 classrooms to war. The attacks on Sept. 11, 2001 shaped a swathe of young Americans who were on their way to their middle or elementary schools or were already there when the first reports, bewildering and then horrifying, filtered into classrooms across the United States. They lived their adolescence in a nation at war, and now they are in the midst of the combat...
(WMBFNews.com)

A soldier tells his 9-11 story. Over the past few weeks, the Journal talked to Salinans, former Salinans and others about their memories of that fateful day, how it affected them and what we still can learn from this tragedy a decade later...
(Salina Journal News)

9/11 survivor relives day plane hits Pentagon. As millions of Americans relive their memories of Sept. 11, 2001, Rapid City native Debbie Shattuck has a more personal experience than most - on that fateful morning, she was busy working in her office at the Pentagon...
(Rapid City Journal)

Comments from Facebook about 9/11. It was a moment that most American?s aren?t able to forget. The morning of Sept 11, 2001, two planes struck the twin towers, a third crashed into the Pentagon and another was brought down by passengers before it could reach its destination. Nearly 3,000 victims and 19 hijackers died in the attacks. The Post asked on Facebook: Where were you when the twin towers fell? What do you remember from 9/11?
(Salisbury Post)

Memories remain vivid 10 years later. KXAN asked its Facebook friends to share some of the memories of Sept. 11, 2001. Here is a sample of what was submitted...
(Kxan)

?A Decade of Honoring the Memory of those Lost?. A decade has passed since our country was attacked on September 11th, 2001, yet many of us still vividly remember where we were at a moment that galvanized communities, cities, a nation and our military forces in support of our country, our allies, and our core beliefs. The tenth anniversary of 9-11 is a time to keep faith with the Families of those who lost their lives that day, including nine of our own ?Warrior Citizens,? many of whom were civilian first-responders killed during rescue efforts at the World Trade Center...
(My Army Reserve)

9/11 changed military service. It has been a decade since the Sept. 11 attacks destroyed the World Trade Center and killed thousands of Americans. But West Tennessee soldiers say they still see the imprints that the history-making tragedy and subsequent Iraq war had on military service...
(The Jackson Sun)

Remembering 9/11 online: Sharing thoughts through tweets, stories and photos. Some are joining celebrities in a national day of service, while other share their thoughts, sadness and memories via the biggest social networks like Twitter and Facebook. Both sites were non-existent when 2,996 people died after a series of devastating events that started at 8:46am on Tuesday, September 11, 2001...
(Examiner)

Remembering 9/11: Iraq Turned Reporter into Full-Time Soldier. The events of 9/11 didn?t change Jonathan Shiroma?s life right away, but they did ruin a story he was working on. On that Tuesday morning in 2001, Shiroma was working as a television reporter for News10 in Sacramento. He was set to interview family members of a suspected murderer, but received a new assignment when ABC?s national coverage broke into the morning newscast...
(Patch)

Milblogger Matt Gallagher featured on MTV

Saturday, September 10, 2011, 03:43 AM - Bloggers turned Writers MTV.com has a story up that features military blogger Matt Gallagher (better known as Kaboom).

In the years that followed since Gallagher?s military blog was shut down during his deployment to Iraq, MTV wanted to learn how the events of 9/11 changed him.

Here?s an excerpt from MTV:

"On September 11, 2001, I was a freshman in college at Wake Forest University in North Carolina, and I actually slept through the attacks," said Gallagher, who had stayed up late the night before playing video games. His roommate, who was from the New York area, woke him up to tell him that he needed to watch the news. "Very groggily, I remember asking him, 'What's going on? Is the world ending?' Looking back on it, in many ways the world as we knew it, the world as I knew it, was ending."

He watched as the second of the Twin Towers fell, just two weeks after he'd joined his school's ROTC program, mostly as a way to pay for his studies. Like most 18-year-olds, Gallagher said he wasn't sure what he wanted to do with his life, and didn't consider himself a gung-ho, "G.I. Joe" type of guy, instead seeing himself as perhaps an Army lawyer.
The story not only delves into Gallagher?s military experience but also his blogging experience.

Read the entire story here.

Soldier's street art featured in film

Saturday, September 10, 2011, 03:30 AM - News Stories How an American Soldier's Street Art Healed the Wounds of War. Filmmaker Heather Courtney followed the group for a four-year period to make "Where Soldiers Come From," a committed, earnest, and intimate documentary that premieres today at New York's Village East Cinemas...
(ARTINFO.com)

Warrior: The Movie that was a Marines Ad Before it was an Ad for the Marines. From this summer's Transformers 3 to next May's Battleship, the military has been sure to have a tight relationship with Hollywood as a way to not only turn on young men and women to sign up, but also to keep the armed forces in the good graces of the American public...
(Brand Channel)

How 'war on terror' unleashed a war on journalists. While there have been no sweeping legislative attacks on the First Amendment, press freedom has eroded domestically and globally...
(CNN International)

War Stories. From air raid shelters in your backyard to fragments of aircraft found in fields nearby, you are invited to find out how war, peace and conflict impact our daily lives. ?On September 29 and 30, leading historians and researchers from around the country will meet at UniSA?s Magill Campus for two days of presentations about ?Legacies of War?...
(Messenger News)

Soulja Boy To Be Banned From U.S. Military Bases Because Of Song. Soulja Boy is said to be in the process of taking the music offline and although the rapper apologized and reportedly promised the troops free concerts and an in person apology, it may not be enough. According to TMZ, the soldiers are trying to get him banned from their bases with an online petition that?s circulating...
(Long Island Press)

Wreckage of Michigan WWII pilot's plane is located. Like many men of his generation, Marshall native Charles Dobbins Sr. didn't talk much about his part in World War II. But several years after his death, an archaeological find in Florida brought his son and namesake, Chuck, a reminder of the dangers his father faced defending the United States...
(Miami Herald)

Soldier diary used in detainee death inquiry

Thursday, September 8, 2011, 11:25 PM - News Stories The diary of a Queen's Lancashire Regiment soldier who served in Iraq when 26-year old Baha Mousa died while being detained, is being used in an inquiry into Mousa's death.

According to a news?article by BBC, Private Stuart MacKenzie was one of the soldiers guarding Baha Mousa.?

MacKenzie kept a diary during his deployment.? The incident took place in September 2003.

Editor's Note: The following are excerpts published in the BBC article.? The language is strong such as use of the F-word.? To see people's reactions to the article, visit the BBC website.

8 July 2003

"Out to vehicle check point, vehicle VCP. Found five SMGs British issue and Nine millimetre pistol and mags. Arrest perp [short for perpetrator] and take car. Hostage beaten up. Broken wrist, concussion, sore bollocks."

18th July 2.30pm

"Crushing jerrycans at another petrol station. A big Iraqi punched Mr Rodgers and got filled in immediately by about 10 of us. He was bleeding from his head, face and ears. He was battered from head to toe, so we let him go instead of arresting him."

24 July

Still on QRF. Called out about 12pm, Ali Baba stealing steel rods from outside camp. Chased them. Asp and Benny swam the sewer to catch him. One warning shot fired by Redders. Man caught and roughed up. Head under water. He's going to be ill. Taken to cop-shop. Finished at 7 pm, off now till 1pm Friday. Wicked."

11/12 September

"Found 3 Ali Babas at WTP7, beat them up with sticks, filmed it. Good day so far."

"Nothing much happened. House raid for hours, nothing found. Caught 3 Ali Babas, beat fuck out of them on back of Saxon. 1 had a punctured lung, broken ribs, fingers, 1 had dislocated shoulder and broken fingers."

Some Syrian soldiers record trophy videos

Thursday, September 8, 2011, 04:37 PM - News Stories As Some Syrian Soldiers Record Trophy Videos, Others Join the Protesters. While video of Syrian soldiers taking part in the crackdown on dissent with enthusiasm continues to appear online ? one new clip shows snipers laughing as they fire from rooftops, another the casual way troops record the beating of a prisoner on their phones ? Syrian activists are also drawing attention to clips said to show soldiers who have decided to defy their orders and join the protesters...
(The New York Times)

Iraqi reporter who criticized government shot dead. An Iraqi journalist who criticized the country's government and was claimed he was abused by the Iraqi army for protesting shoddy services was shot to death Thursday, police said...
(

The Associated Press)

Preserving black Marines' history. Looking back more than 60 years, Korean War veteran Thomas Cork vividly recalls the many slights he encountered as a young black Marine. They started from the moment he left his hometown of Louisville, Ky., in April 1948 with two other recruits, both white, and being forced to ride in a rail car reserved for blacks, separate from his fellow recruits...
(

Politico)

Journal by ex-Hill staffer gives firsthand look at 9/11. Cathy Travis was at a press conference in the Capitol with her boss, former Rep. Solomon Ortiz (D-Texas), on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. He and former Rep. Curt Weldon (R-Pa.) were to talk about military preparedness. But as news trickled in of the terrorist attacks, the lawmakers cut their conference short, and Travis was among the hundreds of members of Congress and staffers heading for the doors to evacuate the Capitol...
(

The Hill)

Painting at Fla. museum believed stolen by Nazis in WWII. Federal officials have ordered the Brogan not to return one of 50 paintings on loan from a museum in Italy because it is believed to have been stolen by Nazis during World War II...
(

USA Today)

"Where Soldiers Come From" Explores Human and Emotional Aspects of War. Heather Courtney returned to her home town in northern Michigan intending to document, and thereby counteract stereotypes about, rural America, which she felt was poorly represented in mainstream television and film.? Unsure of which story to tell, Courtney opened the local newspaper...
(

Patch)

Soulja Boy Tries To Bury Anti-Military Song! Removes It From Album AND Wants It Off Internet. Now, in a further effort to save his career, Soulja has decided to remove Let's Be Real from his upcoming album Respect My Hustle AND he wants to remove the video from the Internet...
(PerezHilton)

Who's Who: White House Tweetup Tweep Roundup. Glittarazzi Founder Kelly Ann Collins will be hanging out with Press Secretary Jay Carney and a handful of other lucky tweeps who get to ask questions about jobs and the economy. Who else is coming? We scoured the Twittersphere and compiled a list of the people we'll be meeting tomorrow...
(Glittarazzi)

Natl. Guard closer to 1 million Facebook fans

Wednesday, September 7, 2011, 08:20 PM

Right now it still looks like the National Guard will hit 1 million fans on Facebook sometime in the month of September.

As of today, 978,624 people ?like? the National Guard on the social networking site.

The U.S. Army is also much closer to the 1 million milestone with 921,387 fans at the time of this story.

I?m a big fan of both organizations, having served in the Army National Guard.

The Marine Corps still has bragging rights within the DoD when it comes to the ?million? milestone.? As I wrote about before, in January 2011, The Marine Corps Recruiting Command's (MCRC) Facebook page surpassed 1 million fans.

Military: Info overload from robot swarms?

Wednesday, September 7, 2011, 05:56 PM - News Stories Military faces info overload from robot swarms. The dramatic growth of the use of robotic warriors on the post-9/11 battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq is leading to weighty problem for the U.S. military: information overload. Drones in the sky already beam thousands of hours of video to intelligence analysts manning multiple screens, and even can send information directly to soldiers in the field. It won't stop there: the military wants individual soldiers not only to drive tanks, watch for enemies and listen for orders, but also someday to command roving bands of robot scouts...
(MSNBC)

MSM Silent As Military Instructed To Applaud Obama, Went After Bush For Similar Incident In 2005?Did the news media expose its liberal bias by ignoring a clip of a group of naval officers who needed to be instructed to applaud President Barack Obama? That?s what several conservative pundits are asking, after a video of the incident in early August surfaced this week...
(Yahoo! News via Weasel Zippers)

Hollywood struggles with 9/11 films. After the 9/11 attacks, it at first seemed as if the film industry would respond in a major way, telling many stories related to that day. In fact, exactly one year later, in the fall of 2002, a collaborative effort from 11 international filmmakers quietly arrived in arthouse cinemas in a few American cities...
(MSNBC)

Exhibit tells Albany brothers' Civil War stories. A new exhibit at an Albany museum examines the role of medicine on both the home front and the battlefield during the Civil War. The exhibit, which commemorates the 150th anniversary of the war, opened last weekend at the Albany Institute of History and Art...
(Houston Chronicle)

Media Mogul Defends Soulja Boy as Soldiers, Fans Express Outrage Over Anti-Army Song. Media mogul and rap pioneer Russell Simmons has expressed sympathy for Soulja Boy after the troubled rapper issued an apology to service members and their families for a profanity-laced song targeting the U.S. Army. Meanwhile, fans, some of them American soldiers, have taken to social media sites to express outrage with the rapper's controversial song...
(The Christian Post)

Army Strong Stories: Remembering 9/11

Wednesday, September 7, 2011, 04:32 PM

As we all remember that day on September 11, my friends over at armystrongstories.com are spotlighting 9/11 stories.

As you'll find by visiting the website, Army Strong Stories is dedicated to sharing the stories of Soldiers, family members, friends and supporters.

Blog posts and video stories feature reflections from Staff Sgt. Genevieve Chase, who enlisted in 2003, and later created American Women Veterans to support women veterans from all eras; Maj. Wayne Wall, who was among the first to raise his hand when volunteer officers were needed for overseas missions following the 9/11 attacks; and Sgt. 1st Class Mike Wiggins, a recruiter in Jacksonville, Fl., who vividly remembers the watching the attacks unfold on TV from his home on post in Fort Benning, Ga.

Kim Hanson, an Army Civilian and the Chief of Advertising and Public Affairs for the U.S. Army 2nd Recruiting Brigade, posted her story earlier today called The World and Me...10 years later.

Everyone has a story about where they were on 9/11 and how their lives have changed since; and I'm always fascinated to hear them. A day that once had no significance now means so much and can instantly trigger so many thoughts and memories.....So for those interested, here's my story, 10 years in the making!

On Sept. 11, 2001, I was in my 4th year of college at Georgia State University, majoring in Public Relations and Political Science / International Affairs. I went to school that morning after the second plane hit, much to the chagrin of my mother who called and tried to talk me into staying home. But I was dedicated (and naive), and so twenty minutes later, there I sat in my Politics of Peace class (seriously - Politics of Peace - that was the course I was in!), with about 10 other classmates as the Twin Towers came down. Even in a class that studies and analyzes peace amongst nations, I could have never imagined the magnitude and consequences of what I watched unfold that day.
All the posts with the 9/11 tag can be read here.

Facebook post: Killer upset by military rejection

Wednesday, September 7, 2011, 02:58 AM - News Stories Man kills five people and unborn baby in murder spree before shooting himself after being 'rejected from military service'. ??It was very horrific to see it,? State Police Captain James Merrill told the West Virginia Metro News. ?It was one of those things you won't forget.?? Riggleman's last Facebook post before the shooting said he was upset about being rejected from joining the military despite being ?fully capable?...
(Daily Mail)

National Civil War Museum putting human face on strife. High-definition TV screens have been mounted on the walls in many of the galleries. Using those screens to speak directly to visitors, 10 representative people, white and black, male and female, described their life stories, experiences and reactions to the war. Their words are based on letters, diaries and other materials in the museum archives. The collection includes about 23,000 documents...
(Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

White House To Hold Tweetup, Chance To Ask @PressSec Questions. The White House has announced details of its next Tweetup. You will have the chance to visit the White House and ask Press Secretary Jay Carney your questions...
(scribbal)

Soulja Boy apologizes to the troops. The video for the song, called? ?Let?s Be Real,? has gone viral. It?s provoked a predictably negative reaction from military members and their supporters, especially with the 10th anniversary of 9-11 fast approaching...
(The Buzz)

Soulja Boy's Album Banned by the Military [PHOTOS and VIDEOS]. TMZ has confirmed that the MySpace rapping sensation has been boycotted by the service, and his next album, "Respect My Hustle," won't be seen in its 3,100 military stores and facilities all around the country. The controversy centers on the song "Let's Be Real" which has lyrics that offended many servicemen and veterans...
(International Business Times)

Editorial: Navy SEALs ... Museum tells heroic tale of nation's elite warriors. The National Navy UDT-SEAL Museum on Hutchinson Island, on Florida?s east coast, is the only museum dedicated solely to telling the story of the elite SEALs who had their birth in the amphibious warfare training that took place on the beaches of Fort Pierce during World War II...
(Naples News)

Does Soulja Boy have right to diss military?

Tuesday, September 6, 2011, 05:27 PM - News Stories

TMZ has some very good commentary on Soulja Boy disrespecting the military by singing ?'F- army troops? in his latest song: Let?s be real.?

To get to the Soulja Boy points in the video jump to these times:

(4:15) Soulja Boy rips the military in a dumb new rap song -- then apologizes for the blunder.
(6:00) The terrible song in question.
(7:20) A veteran's opinion of Soulja's song and apology.

Here?s a link to the video published on TMZ earlier today.

Weibo worries Chinese Government's security

Monday, September 5, 2011, 09:50 AM - News Stories Weibo, China's answer to Twitter, is causing sleepless nights for the country's control-freak security establishment. China?s security establishment ? not unlike Britain?s after the London riots ? is in a tizzy about Twitter. Or more precisely its Chinese equivalent which is called ?Weibo? (pron. way-bwoar). More than 200 million Chinese are now using Weibo, which only opened in China two years ago: that is a dizzying pace of expansion and it has China?s control-freak establishment seriously out of its comfort-zone...
(Telegraph)

A Libyan Prisoner Lives to Tell His Story. HE was my confidential source in the Libyan military this spring, an officer who passed on secret information about disaffection in the ranks of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi. And then as the Libyan revolution spread, he made bombs and smuggled weapons into Tripoli to help overthrow the Qaddafi government...
(New York Times)

At 103, a former Army nurse in Silicon Valley remembers World War II. Henrietta Landman turned 103 years old last month, so when she read about an event honoring nurses who served in World War II, she called with a question. "How many of us are left?"
(San Jose Mercury News)

The SEALs? Big-Screen Moment. Was it really just four months ago? With Americans fearful about a badly faltering economy, the 2012 presidential race gearing up, and the Middle East being remade daily, the death of Osama bin Laden seems like a distant occurrence?a moment of triumph that would feel out of place today?despite the looming anniversary of the 9/11 attacks...
(The Daily Beast)

Fears for Egyptian blogger on hunger strike in jail. Maikel Nabil Sanad's friends and relatives say he is slowly dying in a prison north of Cairo. They say the 26-year-old veterinarian has been on hunger strike in El Marg jail since August 23. He stopped drinking water last Tuesday.
(The National)

War veterans asked to share their stories. Rick Bickerstaff said he wants residents to know their neighbors served in World War II, Vietnam or the Gulf War. "I've talked to someone every day and I didn't know this guy was a POW at first," he said. "You just never know who you're talking to, what they've done, what they've seen..."
(Eagle Tribune)

FACES OF WAR: Documents, photographs tell story of Civil War. Connie Whitt had yet to unpack the Civil War photography exhibit that arrived from the Forsyth County library. But she already knew Tuesday that patrons of the Eden Public Library would love it. Previous exhibits on display at the library have been cause for talk...
(News-Record)

Michael Yon's Afghanistan embed at risk

Monday, September 5, 2011, 02:57 AM - Afghanistan Military Bloggers

Michael Yon certainly has a knack for the dramatics particularly when it comes to his embed relationship with the military.

Operational security violations have come into question in the past, and now it seems a post titled Battlefield Forensics written in August 2011 and published on Michael Yon?s blog is the source of contention between Yon and a ?certain? General who has instructed Yon to un-publish the post.

Yon received the message yesterday September 4 and as of today has yet to take down the post.

However, according to Yon?s Facebook page, the post is no longer an issue.? ?Am told that a couple commanders just had a meeting and talked about the issue. Was told five minutes ago that the case is closed and that all is good. Keep working,? wrote Yon.

Yon asserts the post violates no Op Sec policies, but hints that this disagreement could have ended his embed with the United States Army.

?If the military decides to end my embed, as it did last year, the Army will not end my coverage of the war.? They will merely lose the opportunity to be seen through my lens and heard through my pen.? I will no longer have the opportunity to tell their side of the war,? writes Yon.

Once Yon found out the post was no longer an issue, last night he went on to publicly attack the Public Affairs office on his Facebook page writing, ?Well that's another Public Affairs mess made by Public Affairs. After about seven years of this, I hunt those guys like prairie dogs. They pop out of a hole and you've got to use good breathing and trigger squeeze.? I'm with a great combat unit, 4-4 Cav, so I'm happy so long as I can keep the prairie dog population under control.?

I can?t imagine this will be the last word.

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