Milblogger Anthology Forthcoming
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James Joyner | Monday, October 3, 2005 |
Matt at Blackfive has a big announcement:
Simon & Schuster has agreed to publish a collection from military bloggers sometime in late 2006. I submitted the proposal and will be the editor and one of the many authors.
We will bring together the best of the military blogs, the purest distillation of the myriad voices of this war. These bloggers provide a powerful insight into the military, the War on Terror, and the heart of our nation. By bringing these voices together, we offer the first real-time, âoralâ history of a war while it still going on. We will provide stories from many of the military blogs that cover the full range of the experience of this war â from the decision to serve in the military to their return home, from the front lines to the home front, and from the med-evac units and hospitals where the price of freedom is paid in blood and suffering to the friends that made the ultimate sacrifice.
We will provide a new way to view the military - uncensored, unmediated, direct, intimate and immediate. For everyone on both sides of the computer screenâthe military blogs have been an experiment in putting lives that are on the line, online: Now, by pulling together these voices into a choir, by giving the ephemeral internet bits and bytes a permanent place to live by putting them between covers, we hope to, in some small way, pay lasting tribute to those men and women who have opened this window into their lives and to convey a better understanding of what itâs like to be a part of the War.
This should make for interesting reading. Matt is taking suggestions for your favorite blog posts on the war.
About the Author: James Joyner is the publisher of Outside the Beltway and the managing editor of the Atlantic Council. He's a former Army officer, Desert Storm vet, and college professor with a PhD in political science from The University of Alabama. He lives just outside the Beltway in Alexandria, Virginia with his wife and infant daughter.
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I can't wait to see how the anti-war crowd tries to discredit this, as "propaganda".
Really? You can't just be happy that a lot of writers you probably admire have had something good happen to them? Sad.
1.) I DO admire the writers, and honor their service to their country.
2.) I AM happy for their success in being published. I am happy their stories are being heard.
3.) The MSM will bury this, as many of the stories directly refute the crap pumped out of their propaganda machine for the last coupla' years.
Point 3 reminds me: Michael Yon was embedded in Mosul, right? What do you think he knew or didn't know about "Camp Mercury?"
I didn't suppose he worked for Ted Turner...
I nominate Riverbend and Salam Pax as bloggers whose posts should be included.
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