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Blackfive: Taking Chance Home

Tuesday, April 27th, 2004

Blackfive posts a letter from Marine LTC Strobl outlining his experiences and emotions at escorting the body of Marine LCPL Chance Phelps to his home in Dubois, Wyoming.


From Dover to Philadelphia; Philadelphia to Minneapolis; Minneapolis to Billings; Billings to Riverton; and Riverton to Dubois we had been together. Now, as I watched them carry him the final 15 yards, I was choking up. I felt that, as long as he was still moving, he was somehow still alive.

Then they put him down above his grave. He had stopped moving.

Although my mission had been officially complete once I turned him over to the funeral director at the Billings airport, it was his placement at his grave that really concluded it in my mind. Now, he was home to stay and I suddenly felt at once sad, relieved, and useless.

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Jordan Disrupts Major Al-Qaeda Plot

Monday, April 26th, 2004

CNN is reporting that a major al Qaeda plot has been disrupted in Jordan:

Jordanian authorities said Monday they have broken up an alleged al Qaeda plot that would have unleashed a deadly cloud of chemicals in the heart of Jordan’s capital, Amman.

The plot would have been more deadly than anything al Qaeda has done before, including the September 11 attacks, according to the Jordanian government.

Among the alleged targets were the U.S. Embassy, the Jordanian prime minister’s office and the headquarters of Jordanian intelligence.

The threat is real - and growing.

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Three Days

Monday, April 26th, 2004

Until I’m in St. Croix.

Three more days!

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More than Two Years Now

Sunday, April 25th, 2004

Hey, just realized that I’ve been blogging for more than two years now. Cool!

i started off with Radio Userland - a great product, and later switched to Movable Type, another great product. Now I post mostly via Ecto to my movable type blog - a great combination that works well with my Apple Powerbook.

Here’s to a few more years of blogging!

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Yardwork, Part Two

Sunday, April 25th, 2004

Dethatched, raked, seeded, and fertilized the side and back yards.

A total of nineteen compost bags for the pickup while I’m in St. Croix.

And I hurt in places I didn’t know existed.

But the yard will be pretty in about ten days or so!

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John Howard has Cajones

Sunday, April 25th, 2004

CNN reports on Australian Prime Minister John Howard’s trip to Baghdad, Iraq - for ANZAC Day, the Australian equivalent of our Memorial Day:

Howard later told reporters it was “the most moving ANZAC Day dawn service” in many respects, and the first with gunfire in the background.

When asked his reaction to the sound of gunfire, he said, “Well, you just get on with what you are doing, don’t you, that’s the Australian way.”

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MT Problems Solved?

Sunday, April 25th, 2004

I think I may have finally solved the problems I’ve been having with site-wide movable type rebuilds. Keep your fingers crossed!

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Thermopylae

Saturday, April 24th, 2004

Go, stranger, and in Lakedaimon tell
That here, obedient to their laws,
We fell.

- Simonicles at Thermopylae

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