Posted by: McQ on Wednesday, November 30, 2005 Need some advice and/or feedback. Blackfive and I are batting around an idea to do for those who've been awarded for their valor in combat what has been done for other themes. This is an outgrowth of the "Project Hero" posts I've been doing for the last couple of weeks (and which will continue even if what we're considering gets off the ground). A "carnival" as in "carnival of capitalists" or "carnival of liberty", where one site, on a rotating basis, collects and posts links to other blogs who are featuring stories of the sort highlighted by the particular theme. I have a couple of concerns and would appreciate your feedback. First the minor concern. I just have difficulty with calling it a "carnival of heroes". It just sounds, oh, I don't know, not dignified enough or something. Dale mentioned "A Gathering of Heroes" as a better description. I like it. Any other suggestions would be appreciated. The more significant concern. How it should be organized. Obviously there are only so many stories which can be written and available about the valor of our men and women in uniform so it means the possiblity of duplication (if all we do is highlight their story) is very real. I'm not sure that's particlarly useful. Linking to 12 stories about the same person doesn't seem like it's highlighting the broader heroism of the military force in both Iraq and Afghanistan. Any ideas on how we ought to organize our plea to blogs to write these stories and submit links, but in such a way as to spread the stories across the whole of the military and get a good number of diverse stories linked? And should we limit our gathering to simply valor in combat or should we also have a section of the gathering to highlight positive achievement in other areas in the high stress of a combat environment and make this gathering even broader in nature? In other words, should we do the gathering as more of a "good news" from the war zone instead of just valor in combat? Obviously the valor aspect could be one of the major subsections. But we could also highlight good works/accomplishements in another section. What do you guys think? Constructive comments would be appreciated. UPDATE: Here's what I'm thinking based on comments. The point has been made that heroes aren't necessarily all found in combat. I agree. I think we ought to have four sections to the "Parade of Heroes". 1st section: Valor. Honor those in the military who are awarded for their valor 2nd section: Making a difference in Iraq. This section concentrates on successes in Iraq and Afghanistan by our military whether they be civil/military, schools, you name it. A "here's what is really happening in Iraq" section. 3rd section: The homefront. Anyone who's ever been deployed knows of the sometimes heroic measures the one's left behind go too to just make it, and how they work hard to show their support for the troops. I thinks stories which highlight the families and their efforts are just as important. 4th section: Letters from the front—correspondence from our military talking about Iraq and Afghanistan, their mission, their outlook, etc. What do you think? |
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