browzin
05-27-2007, 09:59 AM
Michael Yon has posted a Memorial Day Message (http://www.michaelyon-online.com/wp/a-memorial-day-message.htm) from the Anbar Province of Iraq. As usual, he presents the good, the bad and the rest of the story.
Instapundit (http://instapundit.com/archives2/005585.php) has an Update on what Yon's work and communications 'back home' mean to the troops:
I'm actually sitting about 30 feet from Michael Yon as he types his dispatches, here in the town of Hit, Al Anbar province. As one of the soldiers in Task Force 2-7, I have to say it's really heartening to have a journalist of his caliber out here reporting with us. Hit, along with Anbar generally, has settled down tremendously in the 4 months I've been in country this tour. It's surreal to compare my first two months in downtown Ramadi - incessant gunfire, explosions, and unending violence - to the peacekeeping and institution-building we finally have underway here in Hit. You wouldn't get that reading the papers, with their constant focus on the (obviously tragic) sectarian violence in Baghdad, but frankly what has happened in Anbar is near-miraculous - it's a story that deserves to be reported far more heavily than it has so to date.
I just want to emphasize how much it means to the guys on the ground out here to have our story told by people like Michael Yon. I'm sure sitting through tedious city council meetings and governance/rule of law/economic strategy sessions with the battalion's staff officers is a bit boring for Mr. Yon, but isn't that a tremendous thing that we're in that situation?
I've been a big fan of fan of Instapundit since my first tour in Iraq, in 2004.
Thanks,
Captain Michael Mulvania
Task Force 2-7 Infantry
Please support Yon's (http://www.michaelyon-online.com/) continued work in Iraq and Afghanistan getting the word(s) out.
Instapundit (http://instapundit.com/archives2/005585.php) has an Update on what Yon's work and communications 'back home' mean to the troops:
I'm actually sitting about 30 feet from Michael Yon as he types his dispatches, here in the town of Hit, Al Anbar province. As one of the soldiers in Task Force 2-7, I have to say it's really heartening to have a journalist of his caliber out here reporting with us. Hit, along with Anbar generally, has settled down tremendously in the 4 months I've been in country this tour. It's surreal to compare my first two months in downtown Ramadi - incessant gunfire, explosions, and unending violence - to the peacekeeping and institution-building we finally have underway here in Hit. You wouldn't get that reading the papers, with their constant focus on the (obviously tragic) sectarian violence in Baghdad, but frankly what has happened in Anbar is near-miraculous - it's a story that deserves to be reported far more heavily than it has so to date.
I just want to emphasize how much it means to the guys on the ground out here to have our story told by people like Michael Yon. I'm sure sitting through tedious city council meetings and governance/rule of law/economic strategy sessions with the battalion's staff officers is a bit boring for Mr. Yon, but isn't that a tremendous thing that we're in that situation?
I've been a big fan of fan of Instapundit since my first tour in Iraq, in 2004.
Thanks,
Captain Michael Mulvania
Task Force 2-7 Infantry
Please support Yon's (http://www.michaelyon-online.com/) continued work in Iraq and Afghanistan getting the word(s) out.