American Soldier

The title of the blog I read is American Soldier, which is pretty much self explanitory since it is about a day in the life of an American Soldier. The entries range from topics about the war to soldiers talking about their families to information helping soldiers get used to regular daily life again. It starts off with one story in particular about a soldier who gave his life to save those of his fellow army men when their post came under heavy attack. It then goes to a post about mortgage offers and programs for veterans and talks about a promising documentary about war and veterans life after war. The creator of this blog was actually nominated and was a finalist for the 2007 weblog awards. The tone of the blog is informal and is basically the author putting all of his thoughts online for people to comment and think about also. The author of the blog itself seems very friendly, knowledgable, and his goal is just to make people aware. He is very opinionated and there are a few entries where he just seems to be blowing steam. When I was reading the blog each post brought out new emotions. The stories made me feel for soldiers and their families and it made me think about all the people going through similar situations now. Reading the posts where the author got heated actually made me smile just with the way he worded things and I thought it was admirable how strongly he felt on certain issues. Overall, I think this blog is good because it offers many different aspects of the war and gives suggestions on other media connected with the war that would be correct and interesting.

Here's the link to the page: http://www.soldierlife.com/