Imagine spending your time (all your time) no more than 15 feet apart from your significant other:
Did you hear about that Buddhist couple who’re never more than 15 feet apart? Well, we tried it.
HT: Instapundit
Simon says:
A real shame exports are growing at a rate of about 2.8% a year. It is a [...]

The usual Friday-Fly By will be pre-empted this week by a reading of Michael Yon’s, “Moment of Truth in Iraq.”
Due to the generosity of a very dear friend, I received my autographed copy yesterday afternoon. It was a long wait until free time late last evening allowed me to begin what I knew would [...]

A new dispatch has been posted from Michael Yon. It is chock full of terrific information and photos as usual.
The final paragraph in this piece captured my attention. Because of the trust I have in Yon’s feelings and observations this gives me hope that we may be nearing a light at the end [...]

Michael Yon clearly thinks not:
The ‘journalists’ who broke the story got their scoop, and in doing so, needlessly endangered the lives of patriotic soldiers. There was no compelling reason to report on Harry’s service in Afghanistan. No public good was served. Shame on those who risked British lives.
This need to know mentality which we have [...]

Wheelchairs for Iraqi Kids helps needy disabled children of Iraq by providing high quality pediatric wheelchairs, each sponsored by individual and corporate donors. Sponsors receive a picture of the disabled children as they are placed in their wheelchair for the first time! This is a unique opportunity, as families around the world have [...]

The final installment of Men of Valor has been posted by Michael Yon.
This one is content laden and chock full of photos. If you have followed the series, this is a must read.
Also, via email, Michael relays the following:
Hoping all is well on Super Tuesday in America and that all my readers who [...]

News from Michael Yon via email:
Greetings:
I am back in Iraq, currently in South Baghdad on FOB Falcon with 1-4Cav. This battalion is doing so well with counterinsurgency that it has not been attacked a single time since 9 September 2007. Their area was one of the worst in all Iraq before they [...]

In todays email from Michael Yon:
Greetings:
I am preparing to head back to Iraq at the end of this week.
We’ve added a lot of new material to the site in the past week, including updates on units I’ve embedded with and stories published during 2007, and links to news items, like a profile [...]

Gee, do you think bin Laden will accept the generous invitation Michael Yon has extended?
It’s understandable that this turn of events might come as news to Osama, because he cannot set foot in Iraq for fear of his life. Osama is welcome to prove this wrong by visiting Basra, Baghdad or Mosul. Iraqis and [...]

The following is the opening paragraph in Michael Yon’s email which links to his latest dispatch.
Been a long but productive year. Great progress in Iraq. The country has made a dramatic turnaround. But of course, there is still a long way to go, and sharper fighting in the months ahead before anyone should [...]

What an uplifting pictorial piece posted by Michael Yon.
Welcome Home. Well Done.
I could hear the school teachers saying quietely with their British accents to the soldiers as they marched by, “Good job. Welcome home. Well done. Welcome home. Good job. Welcome home.”
There could be no better gift at Christmas for both these members of the [...]

Men of Valor-Part IV has been posted.
In his typical style, Michael Yon tells a story in a way which makes you feel as though you are a part of what these brave men and women have experienced.
I mean that not in the physical sense but mentally envisioning the horrors they have suffered and [...]

This was just received in an email from Michael Yon:
Just returned from the Iraq-Syria border back to Mosul after an interesting day. The progress in Iraq could not be clearer. I’ve never seen so much hope among the Iraqis or our soldiers. U.S. officers and senior NCOs caution me to be careful [...]

If you are following Michael Yon’s newest dispatches, he has now posted Men of Valor Part II.
In truth, the British have kept faith with their pledge of partnership, and much more because by overstaying, they jeopardized men, women and mission in order to buy us time and keep the exits covered. America has no truer [...]

Men of Valor: Part I of about VIII primarily details missions handled by the British units in Iraq.
This post is particularly compelling in the aspect of how British soldiers are regarded in the UK vs. how our military is respected and provided for through various programs based here in the states.
On both trips with the [...]

There are citizens in Iraq who are grateful to America:
The Iraqis asked me to convey a message of thanks to the American people. ” Thank you, thank you,” the people were saying. One man said, “Thank you for peace.” Another man, a Muslim, said “All the people, all the people in Iraq, Muslim and Christian, [...]

From Michael Yon:
“Iraqi Islamic Party: “Al Qaeda is Defeated”
……Speaking through an interpreter at a 31 October meeting at the Iraqi Islamic Party headquarters in downtown Baghdad, Sheik Omar said that al Qaeda had been “defeated mentally, and therefore is defeated physically,” referring to how clear it has become that the terrorist group’s tactics have backfired. [...]

Might I say, it is one with which I agree.
Beauchamp is young; under pressure he made a dumb mistake. In fact, he has not always been an ideal soldier. But to his credit, the young soldier decided to stay, and he is serving tonight in a dangerous part of Baghdad. He might well [...]

Michael Yon takes on the media here at home in his latest post:
Clearly, a majority of Americans believe the current set of outdated fallacies passed around mainstream media like watered down drinks at happy hour. Why wouldn’t they? The cloned copy they get comes from the same sources that list the specials at the local [...]

Michael Yon in his own words speaking on the situation in Basra, Iraq.
Michael was interviewed from Basra, Iraq as part of a segment entitled “The British Troop Drawdown: Can the Iraqis control Basra?” Also featured in this segment was Nic Robertson, CNN Senior International Correspondent, reporting from Baghdad. The October 13th broadcast of CNN’s “This [...]

In his latest dispatch, Michael Yon writes of some of the sacrifices of war. It became obvious to me in reading this piece that Michael was very connected to not only the members of the military with whom he has served as an embed, but to his own emotions as he experiences not only [...]

Part III of Michael’s “Hunting Al Qaeda” has been dispatched. (Warning: graphic photography). The honesty incorporated into his pieces is something I wish we would see more often in the press and on television here at home.
Just before we dropped ramp again, I asked the Soldier sitting in front of me, “Why did that [...]

If you want to read the unfiltered truth about what is going on in Iraq you should be a regular reader of Michael Yon and Michael Totten, along with the other milbloggers.
These men are actually in Iraq and in the middle of the battles. They tell it the way it is and not what [...]

I try to leave the Michael Yon postings to Sue because she does such a great job with them, but she has had communication trouble and is now busy with her grandchildren so I will quote from Michael Yon’s latest dispatch: “Hunting al Qaeda Part II of III.”
Al Qaeda still lurks in the area, so [...]

Strange title, strange location for this latest piece from Michael Yon. His latest post comes to us courtesy of National Review Online
I promise it will all make sense when you click over and read what I consider to be one of Michael’s best. Not best in a boots on the ground sense, just [...]

Michael Yon has posted Part IV of his series and like all of his work he drives home points and touches on information which we do not read here at home in the press. This dispatch is loaded with more wonderful photography. Here’s a snippet:
At one of the houses, Iraqi soldiers said that [...]

There is a new dispatch today from Michael Yon.
Michael also this past week linked to a video put together by two reporters from the NYT.
Both pieces are well worth checking out.

As ususal Mr. Yon gives us unbiased, concise reporting from his position as an embed. I appreciated the human element he incorporates in the following paragraph:
When you really talk with Iraqis, their problems (outside of the war) are mostly like people’s problems all over the world. The shepherds want the wild dogs to leave [...]

Michael Yon has posted part two of “The Ghosts of Anbar.”
Another interesting read for those keeping up with the series. Great facts about conditions on the ground and terrific pictures again.
Just a snippet which I found to be very revealing.
Dealing with the press is just a reality, like the weather. We would [...]

In part one of a four part series, Michael Yon tell us of the “Ghosts of Anbar.”
Our Anbar-war can be said to have begun after the invasion in 2003, and for most of its duration, Fallujah has been the crucible Anbar city. In the beginning, in this city of mosques, the people of Fallujah had [...]