Comments on: This time the children are smiling http://jscafenette.com/2007/07/06/this-time-the-children-are-smiling/ Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:23:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Sue http://jscafenette.com/2007/07/06/this-time-the-children-are-smiling/#comment-2633 Sue Sat, 07 Jul 2007 15:34:08 +0000 http://jscafenette.com/2007/07/06/this-time-the-children-are-smiling/#comment-2633 Michael: Thanks so much for the links. You are correct about the site, it can be difficult at times to recover past information. I remember reading the series on Mosul but will take the time to read again as I never tire of Yon's work. Hope to see you back visiting and thanks once again for the links. Michael:

Thanks so much for the links.

You are correct about the site, it can be difficult at times to recover past information.

I remember reading the series on Mosul but will take the time to read again as I never tire of Yon’s work.

Hope to see you back visiting and thanks once again for the links.

]]> By: ~J~ http://jscafenette.com/2007/07/06/this-time-the-children-are-smiling/#comment-2616 ~J~ Sat, 07 Jul 2007 09:37:58 +0000 http://jscafenette.com/2007/07/06/this-time-the-children-are-smiling/#comment-2616 Thank you for visiting and for your comment, Michael. I haven't read those posts and I appreciate your sharing the links with us. I was reading what I thought was a 4 part dispatch on the Brit troops a few weeks ago, but I never found part 4, so I know what you're saying about it being difficult to find all the links on his site. He is a very good writer and I admire him for living the life of a soldier while on his own time and his own dime in order to give us a fair view of what's going on in Iraq in real time. His photography is excellent, and when he incorporates it the way he does in his dispatches I feel as though I am there feeling, smelling and seeing what he is feeling, smelling and seeing. He doesn't write a favorable story just to be favorable and he does write about the bad as well as the good. That's why I think so many people like his work. I'll certainly read the posts you referenced later on today. Again, welcome and thanks for the comment. Thank you for visiting and for your comment, Michael. I haven’t read those posts and I appreciate your sharing the links with us.

I was reading what I thought was a 4 part dispatch on the Brit troops a few weeks ago, but I never found part 4, so I know what you’re saying about it being difficult to find all the links on his site.

He is a very good writer and I admire him for living the life of a soldier while on his own time and his own dime in order to give us a fair view of what’s going on in Iraq in real time.

His photography is excellent, and when he incorporates it the way he does in his dispatches I feel as though I am there feeling, smelling and seeing what he is feeling, smelling and seeing.

He doesn’t write a favorable story just to be favorable and he does write about the bad as well as the good. That’s why I think so many people like his work.

I’ll certainly read the posts you referenced later on today.

Again, welcome and thanks for the comment.

]]> By: Michael McNeil (Impearls) http://jscafenette.com/2007/07/06/this-time-the-children-are-smiling/#comment-2615 Michael McNeil (Impearls) Sat, 07 Jul 2007 08:37:46 +0000 http://jscafenette.com/2007/07/06/this-time-the-children-are-smiling/#comment-2615 Michael Yon is terrific. My only criticism of his site (not of him nor his dispatches) is that (best I can tell) it doesn't present and juxtapose some of his work in a way calculated to deliver a unified story.  In this regard, two years ago Yon had a terrific series of connected stories — known as the "Battle for Mosul" — which as a whole is somewhat ponderous, I think, to ferret out of his archives.  As a result, for everyone's convenience I've gathered the links for that together here: 2005-05-14 <a href="http://www.michaelyon-online.com/wp/the-battle-for-mosul.htm" rel="nofollow">the-battle-for-mosul.htm</a> 2005-05-21 <a href="http://www.michaelyon-online.com/wp/the-battle-for-mosul-dispatch-ii.htm" rel="nofollow">the-battle-for-mosul-dispatch-ii.htm</a> 2005-06-13 <a href="http://www.michaelyon-online.com/wp/battle-for-mosul-part-iii.htm" rel="nofollow">battle-for-mosul-part-iii.htm</a> 2005-08-16 <a href="http://www.michaelyon-online.com/wp/the-battle-for-mosul-reality-check.htm" rel="nofollow">the-battle-for-mosul-reality-check.htm</a> 2005-09-09 <a href="http://www.michaelyon-online.com/wp/battle-for-mosul-progress-report.htm" rel="nofollow">battle-for-mosul-progress-report.htm</a> 2005-09-23 <a href="http://www.michaelyon-online.com/wp/battle-for-mosul-iii-prelude.htm" rel="nofollow">battle-for-mosul-iii-prelude.htm</a> 2005-10-04 <a href="http://www.michaelyon-online.com/wp/the-battle-for-mosul-iv.htm" rel="nofollow">the-battle-for-mosul-iv.htm</a> Michael Yon is terrific. My only criticism of his site (not of him nor his dispatches) is that (best I can tell) it doesn’t present and juxtapose some of his work in a way calculated to deliver a unified story.  In this regard, two years ago Yon had a terrific series of connected stories — known as the “Battle for Mosul” — which as a whole is somewhat ponderous, I think, to ferret out of his archives.  As a result, for everyone’s convenience I’ve gathered the links for that together here:

2005-05-14 the-battle-for-mosul.htm
2005-05-21 the-battle-for-mosul-dispatch-ii.htm
2005-06-13 battle-for-mosul-part-iii.htm
2005-08-16 the-battle-for-mosul-reality-check.htm
2005-09-09 battle-for-mosul-progress-report.htm
2005-09-23 battle-for-mosul-iii-prelude.htm
2005-10-04 the-battle-for-mosul-iv.htm

]]> By: Sue http://jscafenette.com/2007/07/06/this-time-the-children-are-smiling/#comment-2594 Sue Fri, 06 Jul 2007 22:09:11 +0000 http://jscafenette.com/2007/07/06/this-time-the-children-are-smiling/#comment-2594 Guss: You are most welcome. :) Guss:

You are most welcome.

:)

]]> By: Guss http://jscafenette.com/2007/07/06/this-time-the-children-are-smiling/#comment-2591 Guss Fri, 06 Jul 2007 21:25:36 +0000 http://jscafenette.com/2007/07/06/this-time-the-children-are-smiling/#comment-2591 I've heard a lot about him and was just wondering who he was. Thank you for the information and from now on I will know who you are talking about.:) I’ve heard a lot about him and was just wondering who he was. Thank you for the information and from now on I will know who you are talking about.:)

]]> By: Sue http://jscafenette.com/2007/07/06/this-time-the-children-are-smiling/#comment-2588 Sue Fri, 06 Jul 2007 20:40:15 +0000 http://jscafenette.com/2007/07/06/this-time-the-children-are-smiling/#comment-2588 Guss: He is a free lance reporter who has been on the ground in Iraq working alongside the troops for some time now. If you want to know more about him, check out the links both in this story and in the archives. You may or may not like his reports. I just happen to trust the majority of what he writes. Guss:

He is a free lance reporter who has been on the ground in Iraq working alongside the troops for some time now.

If you want to know more about him, check out the links both in this story and in the archives.

You may or may not like his reports. I just happen to trust the majority of what he writes.

]]> By: Guss http://jscafenette.com/2007/07/06/this-time-the-children-are-smiling/#comment-2587 Guss Fri, 06 Jul 2007 20:17:26 +0000 http://jscafenette.com/2007/07/06/this-time-the-children-are-smiling/#comment-2587 Who is this Michael Yon that you keep talking about? Is he a columnist? Who is this Michael Yon that you keep talking about? Is he a columnist?

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