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| Iraq |
| Ernie is Dead |
| 2007-03-14 |
| Something was strange about the moon. Not able to sleep, I pulled from the sleeping bag and used a small red light to walk from the long dark tent into the Baghdad night. Inside had been dark, but outside the moon was so strangely bright that I crept quietly back into the tent, aisles flanked by sleeping bodies, and felt through my gear for the camera before creeping back outside. The moon, so bright and sharp, draped crisp penumbra-less shadows from the tent ropes, casting sharp stripes across the gravel. As the moon followed its natural path into umbra, the fact that a complete lunar eclipse would unfold in mere hours had escaped my attention. Helicopters roared through the midnight, low overhead, most burned no visible lights. As the helicopters disappeared and Saturday drifted into Sunday, I stood alone in the moonlight watching the tents under the stars, and photographing the various light sources mixing and flowing together. Michael Yon [RBees he's on FOX now w00t!] |
| Posted by:RD |
| #7 Or beaten to within an inch of death by anonymous patriots who have run out of patience. |
| Posted by: wxjames 2007-03-14 20:03 |
| #6 Yon is doing fine work reflecting the bravery and prowess of our troops. We have the most courageous and technically competent military the world has ever seen. They do marvelous things. The fact that the MSM has for so long shown nothing but negativity about them SCREAMS that they hate this country. Any objective observer would look at these men and women and think, "What a great story that everyone would be on pins and needles to read about." When we win this war, AS WE WILL, future generations will look back on the media coverage and wonder why more of the MSM execs weren't tried for treason. |
| Posted by: Mac 2007-03-14 18:24 |
| #5 This is pretty far down in the Yon article but here's some good news: Today, LTC Erik Kurilla, formerly commander of the Deuce Four and totally recovered from his last gunshot wounds, is now commander of 2nd Ranger Battalion. |
| Posted by: Matt 2007-03-14 16:23 |
| #4 Go to the link, Bobby. It looks like Fox has picked him up. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-03-14 09:13 |
| #3 Yeah, you could be right, Mike! But it'll be years before he's recognized as such. Too bad. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2007-03-14 06:22 |
| #2 Ernie Pyle may be gone, but his spirit lives on in the personage of one Michael Yon. |
| Posted by: Mike 2007-03-14 06:13 |
| #1 Around the world, dangerous American soldiers will close in on men tonight and kill them in small battles that will never be spoken of. [Odd stories appear frequently on the internet with rumors of who really was responsible.] Al Qaeda turned it on, but is powerless to turn it off. Nearly all of America and Europe believe Iraq is a lost cause, but there is hope here and it lives in the thousands of stories about this place that are never told because they have not been witnessed by our media, or at least not reported. Huge amounts of blog-energy go into attacks on mainstream media war coverage that might be better spent ignoring the irritant and offering alternative sources. The common cause might be better served by well-informed bloggers searching all sources for the reports that get it right and driving readers to those. Verlaine & others -- You know the forest & trees, the rest of us have only seen the forest, dimly through the fog of war & from a great distance. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2007-03-14 03:07 |