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HerFabLife ("the internet's newest social lifestyle community for young urban women") is looking for a lifestyle writer/blogger who can type missives on any of the multitudes of topics that might interest and appeal to urbanite fashionistas.
Chicago poli-blogger sought for "top 3 television network". $200 weekly paid for fresh, intelligently written content.
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Solidier blogs own epitaph
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Our editors here at Bloggapedia were scanning the news from the Blogosphere early this morning and came across a story that, regardless of any of our own personal and political views on war and the military, brought tears to our eyes.
Army Major Andrew Olmstead is one of many military personnel who keep a blog, providing the rest of us 'back home' with a rare glimpse and real, human insight into what it's like to experience war in Iraq. His posts for The Rocky Mountain News in Colorado Springs reported regularly on his thoughts and feelings, his life as a solider and his political notions. But it is his most recent post, dated Jan 4, 2008, that inspired us to take a moment to post to the Bloggapedia blog.
"I am leaving this message for you because it appears I must leave sooner than I intended. I would have preferred to say this in person, but since I cannot, let me say it here." This phrase, quoted from an apparent favorite television show, begins what is Olmstead's last post, added to his website one day after he was killed while serving with the United States military in Iraq, during a fight with insurgents. He was 37 years old.
The post, a literal personal epitaph, penned in anticipation of the possibility of his death in Iraq and emailed to a friend, punctuated with moving and sometimes funny quotations, runs the gamut of thought that might accompany any person through a retrospect of their own flawed human experience. It is a moving and exceptionally modest open letter to the world, requesting at one point that his death not be used to further any one political agenda and insisting that his death is not a mistake. But still, the Major writes, “Sometimes going to war is the right idea. I think we've drawn that line too far in the direction of war rather than peace, but I'm a soldier and I know that sometimes you have to fight if you're to hold onto what you hold dear. But in making that decision, I believe we understate the costs of war; when we make the decision to fight, we make the decision to kill, and that means lives and families destroyed. Mine now falls into that category; the next time the question of war or peace comes up, if you knew me at least you can understand a bit more just what it is you're deciding to do, and whether or not those costs are worth it."
Army Major Andrew Olmstead is one of many military personnel who keep a blog, providing the rest of us 'back home' with a rare glimpse and real, human insight into what it's like to experience war in Iraq. His posts for The Rocky Mountain News in Colorado Springs reported regularly on his thoughts and feelings, his life as a solider and his political notions. But it is his most recent post, dated Jan 4, 2008, that inspired us to take a moment to post to the Bloggapedia blog.
"I am leaving this message for you because it appears I must leave sooner than I intended. I would have preferred to say this in person, but since I cannot, let me say it here." This phrase, quoted from an apparent favorite television show, begins what is Olmstead's last post, added to his website one day after he was killed while serving with the United States military in Iraq, during a fight with insurgents. He was 37 years old.
The post, a literal personal epitaph, penned in anticipation of the possibility of his death in Iraq and emailed to a friend, punctuated with moving and sometimes funny quotations, runs the gamut of thought that might accompany any person through a retrospect of their own flawed human experience. It is a moving and exceptionally modest open letter to the world, requesting at one point that his death not be used to further any one political agenda and insisting that his death is not a mistake. But still, the Major writes, “Sometimes going to war is the right idea. I think we've drawn that line too far in the direction of war rather than peace, but I'm a soldier and I know that sometimes you have to fight if you're to hold onto what you hold dear. But in making that decision, I believe we understate the costs of war; when we make the decision to fight, we make the decision to kill, and that means lives and families destroyed. Mine now falls into that category; the next time the question of war or peace comes up, if you knew me at least you can understand a bit more just what it is you're deciding to do, and whether or not those costs are worth it."
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