{"id":1246,"date":"2006-10-27T16:48:29","date_gmt":"2006-10-27T16:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-10-27T16:49:49","modified_gmt":"2006-10-27T16:49:49","slug":"blackfives_blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=1246","title":{"rendered":"Blackfive’s “Blogs of War” Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mine is up at the Examiner<\/a>. <\/p>\n

While it is an obvious thing to do to honor our dead soldiers, the joy of a book like this – and of the milblogs it gives a snapshot of – is to introduce you to very real words of our living ones. They are a very real manifestation of Whitman:<\/p>\n

\n“I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear. “…<\/p>\n

\nFewer and fewer Americans know soldiers as the tradition of military service slips into history. Buy the book, meet some, and listen to them.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And when you buy the book, take a moment to send an email or letter to both the White <\/a>House and the Secretary of Defense<\/a>, asking why it is that midlevel Pentagon bureaucrats are choking off the ability of our troops to blog and of our bloggers (see this<\/a> from Michael Yon) to cover the troops:<\/p>\n

Classification: UNCLASSIFIED<\/p>\n

\nMr. Yon;<\/p>\n

\nI do not recognize your website as a media organization that we will use as a source to credential journalists covering MNF-I operations.<\/p>\n

\nLTC Barry Johnson
\nDirector, CPIC
\nwww.mnf-iraq.com <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Somethings speak for themselves. The war doesn’t, and we need the voices of Blackfive and his band of bloggers, and of Michael Yon, and of all the men and women serving to try and comprehend what’s going on over there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Armed Liberal has a review of Matty O’Blackfive’s book “The Blogs of War”. Short version: Buy it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}