Kiko’s House is having guest blog posts for five days to mark a “special” Veterans’ Day that comes within the context of the increasingly complicated and difficult Iraq War. Shaun Mullen explains:
There has never been a Veterans Days like the one we will “celebrate” on November 11.
He further explains why then adds:
Over the next five days, Kiko’s House will publish commentaries on Veterans Day from guest bloggers who range from a legendary 83-year-old African-American journalist who was a Tuskeegee Airman, to a twentysomething blogger based in New York City for whom Iraq is her first war, but almost certainly not her last.
Read his whole post.
And be certain to read the FIRST POST IN THE SERIES — this one by Daniel DiRito (whose thoughtful posts have often been linked here at TMV).
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.