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U.S. Army Thanksgiving tweet going viral

U.S. Army Thanksgiving tweet going viral – A short Thanksgiving tweet posted by @USArmy earlier today is going viral on Twitter.The message is simple:“As you celebrate #Thanksgiving, take a moment to remember those who are not home with their loved ones”A photo (pictured above) of a soldier scanning the desert while a tray of food sits nearby accompanies the tweet.At the time of this story, the message has already been retweeted over 1,000 times and favorited nearly… http://ow.ly/2BRKqi

Therapeutic: Blog tribute to fallen brot

Therapeutic: Blog tribute to fallen brother – In another touching post, Christina Spragins, the sister of fallen Army Staff Sgt. Alex Viola, thanked readers for the support she received in response to a blog tribute she wrote last week titled For my brother.“I am truly humbled. It was SO incredibly important to me that people know the very special person he was so that hopefully he will be remembered. And I feel so grateful that my post may have helped with that. Than… http://ow.ly/2BPYtw

Sister writes blog in honor of fallen br

Sister writes blog in honor of fallen brother – Christina Spragins started a blog this past September called Operation Home as an online outlet to share DIY home projects.Last week, her brother, Army Staff Sgt. Alex Viola, was killed in Afghanistan.Just days after learning of his death, Spragins took to her blog to express her grief over the loss of her brother and remember him.On November 22, Spragins wrote a blog tribute titled For my brother, which shares stories and… http://ow.ly/2BO0qi

Military blog “Time Now” featured in t

Military blog “Time Now” featured in the news – It is always positive to see news sites pay attention to military blogs. Though it has become less frequent to see, that’s just what happened earlier this month with the military blog Time Now: The Iraq and Afghanistan Wars in Art, Film, and Literature.The news site Philipstown.info featured the blog on November 15, in an article titled Every Day is Veterans Day. The writer, Kevin Foley, interviewed West Point instructor… http://ow.ly/2BM2wI

Female infantry student quit all social

Female infantry student quit all social media – Image via InstagramPfc. Harlee Bradford (pictured above) who had been enrolled in the Marine Corps’ Infantry Training Battalion (ITB) course, has apparently quit social media.I wrote about Bradford quitting Instagram. However, the shutdown is not just isolated to Instagram…Bradford, one of a handful of female Marines to participate in the ITB course, had been posting photos to the photo sharing website Instagram during t… http://ow.ly/2BIG33

Female infantry student quits Instagram

Female infantry student quits Instagram – Pfc. Harlee Bradford (pictured center), had been uploading photos of her experience in the Marine Corps’ Infantry Training Battalion course. The photos were published on the photo-sharing site Instagram. It appears in the past 24 hours or so she has abruptly deleted her Instagram account (http://instagram.com/dangshesrambo). If you go to the web address, a message appears stating, “Page Not Found”.Bradford first created a st… http://ow.ly/2BFbAh

News: NATO, Taliban battle it out on Twi

News: NATO, Taliban battle it out on Twitter – Taliban And NATO War on Twitter. As NATO forces prepare to leave Afghanistan, the group is waging a battle for the hearts and minds of Afghan youth—and it’s spilling onto social media. The Taliban are avid tweeters. This may come as a surprise, given that the group’s reign in the 1990s has often been described as “medieval,” with the outlawing of modern technology just one item on a laundry list of brutal policies… http://ow.ly/2BD8TA

45 journalists killed in 2013 motive con

45 journalists killed in 2013 motive confirmed – The number of journalists killed so far in 2013 is up to 45, according to the latest information from the Committee to Protect Journalists (aka CPJ).While the number of journalists killed around the world is higher than 45, CPJ says these deaths are “Motive/Confirmed”, meaning, they were killed as a direct result of their work.Motive confirmed covers the following types of deaths:crossfire/combat: a killing on a battl… http://ow.ly/2BB77R

British Army near 1 million Facebook lik

British Army near 1 million Facebook likes – The official Facebook page of the British Army is less than 3,000 likes away from reaching 1 million likes on Facebook.It’s a pretty impressive milestone, considering the British Army joined the social networking website in late 2009.At the time of this story, the British Army has exactly 997,297 likes, making it one of the top 25 government organizations on Facebook in terms of likes.It should be well into the 300 hundreds… http://ow.ly/2BxwS2