Faces of the Fallen

Faces of the Fallen

Site From Washington Post http://projects.washingtonpost.com/fallen/iraq/

For over five years now the Washington Post has published these photos of the Faces of the Fallen

Two weeks from today, Wednesday, November 5'th, the U.S. Presidential election will be history. Life for these Americans is already history. Look at their pictures that were published October 21, 2008 in the Washington Post. Read their names out loud to yourself.

Think of how they must have suffered and died in Iraq then remember each and everyone of them when you vote November 4'th. Think of their weeping comrades and families and friends. Think of how we can work together, Republican and Democrat to end the need to publish more of these photos of the Faces of the Fallen. Also think of the thousands of wounded Americans returning to the U.S. from the Iraq War and the ways we must help them return to their prewar lives as best as possible. These wounded will be a tremendous economic burden on America but if anyone needs the Federal government to bail them out, these folks do deserve it. Many times more than the CEOs on Wall St.

Also think of the dead and wounded from the war being waged in Afghanistan. From this same website you can view the Faces of the Fallen from Afghanistan. Life for them is also history.

Again look at the faces and read out loud their names and think of how they suffered and died for us in Afghanistan.

While both political parties and both politcal candidates have been campaigning these folks have given their lives for our right to vote. So for the faces pictured here please exercise your right to vote. I think it is your solemn duty to vote on November 4'th.

The Blog Got Busted!!!!!!!!

Thursday's Washington Post reported on the very amusing but very disturbing story of the army lieutenant whose blog got busted. Apparently this blog got more hits per day than some small town newspapers. This witty guy called his outpost in Iraq Anu al-Verona in reference to Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. The Sunnis were the Capulets and the Shias were the Montagues. After six months of blogging he ruffled the feathers of his commanding officer in a blogpost and got busted. Well, there has been such an uproar over this that several things have occurred.

One, the blog's old post has been reinstated by an admiring reader. See here. http://kaboomwarjournalarchive.blogspot.com/

Two, the lieutenant's fiance has taken over writing the original blog. See here. http://kaboomwarjournal.blogspot.com/

Three, the media is reporting on this story now. See here.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/23/AR2008072303970.html?sid=ST2008072303995&pos=

If you read the Washington Post article you will learn that this soldier had quite a following with kids who were reading and writing to him and saying things like " War is worse than math!"

I think if you go to the above sites that I have listed, you will find some very interesting stuff to read. On a lighter note, have a great summer weekend.

I Don't Know What Is Going To Happen

http://fortsam.blogspot.com/2008/02/21-february-2008-lunar-eclipse-and.html

I don't know what is going to happen. I don't mean about the primary election in Ohio, Texas, Rhode Island and Vermont. What I mean is what is going to happen to my favorite blog from Iraq now that the writer's tour in Iraq is over and he is heading back to the United States via Kuwait. I hope he keeps posting from his new assignment in the states. In the meantime I need to find another interesting U.S. military blog from Iraq to read. I have been reading this one since September when my daughter's beau landed in Iraq. If you want to see the Iraq blog that I have enjoyed reading go to the site above.