Blogging after redeployment?
I’ve been perusing some of the other military blogs, specifically those of service members blogging from Iraq and Afghanistan. The big thing I’ve noticed is that after the soldier redeploys, they nearly all end with a post declaring that their blogging won’t end when they get back to the states.
Then, the posts end abruptly and without explanation.
I guess I could sit here and tell you the same thing, and really mean that I will keep blogging when I get back, but I don’t know if that is really true. I have many things I’ve kept bottled up, wanting to blog about, but feared retribution if I posted them on the web. Unfortunately, most of those things involved the incompetence or self-serving actions of my senior leaders. Those posts will have to wait until I’ve transferred out of this current unit - which should occur shortly after my return.
After I get back, will my daily life really be all that interesting? Probably not. I created this blog in order to give my immediate family and friends a look into my life here. Unfortunately, I didn’t catch onto blogging until late in my tour. Up until recently, I was just sending out a bunch of mass emails. There’s many times I wished that I had started at the beginning, and not near the end.
If I do continue blogging, I undoubtedly will be discussing politics. I’ve already done that in several posts here, if only to fill the spaces between my intermittent discussions of Iraq and this war. Hopefully I will not be like so many of those other bloggers who quietly disappear, but only time will tell.
Update - in light of the fact that I didn’t start this blog until August 2006, but before that had been sending updates of my experiences to my friends and family via email, I’ve decided to publish those emails as posts. Dating back to November 2005, you can see my chronological timeline of experiences. As there were many emails, it may take me some time to post them all. Also, some of the things I wrote were put down by hand in a journal. Those musings will have to wait until I return from Iraq, as I’ve already shipped it home.
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