Clouds_mate
18th June 2008, 13:30
Yo,
Anyone read this book?
just sumbled across the website. Basically it started as blog but has been shut down twice by the army. It was a guy doing updates about his training and been sent out to Iraq.
On September 28, 2003, the blog “Just Another Soldier” went online. The original address for the blog was www.recognizant.com/myiraq. The first post to the blog was a photograph of Jason Christopher Hartley standing in uniform between buildings 4 and 5 of the World Trade Center in front of the wreckage of Ground Zero that came to be known among those who worked there as “The Pit”. Hartley spent the first eleven days after the attack as part of the de facto perimeter guard. It was there that he sensed he would be wearing that uniform quite a bit over the next few years. Two years later his New York Army National Guard unit was activated to be sent to Iraq.
The blog was shut down by the Army after being online for five months, but Hartley continued to write, sending his stories out to a private emailing list. During the penultimate month of his deployment, he resurrected the blog, this time at the address www.justanothersoldier.com, only to be shut down again by the Army and punished.
Approximately half the book is material originally from the blog. The rest was written by Hartley once he returned from Iraq.
Just been reading some of the blog entrys and it seems pretty funny.
Looking for some reading material for my holiday really. Never read a full book in my life but the thought of spending a week away with the Mrs as me thinking maybe its time to find a good one.
Read it, any good? Or know of any good books?
Anyone read this book?
just sumbled across the website. Basically it started as blog but has been shut down twice by the army. It was a guy doing updates about his training and been sent out to Iraq.
On September 28, 2003, the blog “Just Another Soldier” went online. The original address for the blog was www.recognizant.com/myiraq. The first post to the blog was a photograph of Jason Christopher Hartley standing in uniform between buildings 4 and 5 of the World Trade Center in front of the wreckage of Ground Zero that came to be known among those who worked there as “The Pit”. Hartley spent the first eleven days after the attack as part of the de facto perimeter guard. It was there that he sensed he would be wearing that uniform quite a bit over the next few years. Two years later his New York Army National Guard unit was activated to be sent to Iraq.
The blog was shut down by the Army after being online for five months, but Hartley continued to write, sending his stories out to a private emailing list. During the penultimate month of his deployment, he resurrected the blog, this time at the address www.justanothersoldier.com, only to be shut down again by the Army and punished.
Approximately half the book is material originally from the blog. The rest was written by Hartley once he returned from Iraq.
Just been reading some of the blog entrys and it seems pretty funny.
Looking for some reading material for my holiday really. Never read a full book in my life but the thought of spending a week away with the Mrs as me thinking maybe its time to find a good one.
Read it, any good? Or know of any good books?