A new type of Blog Comment by Tony Green

I maintain a blog because anyone can publish content on the Internet so shouldn’t I? To be honest, it is something I enjoy as it provides insight to what I may be thinking at a given point in time and into my past experiences which is the basis of many of my postings.

Since I am not blogging to make money in an internet marketer point of view or blogging to drive my business how to measure the success of effectiveness of your blog?

One was I would imagine is number of readers who read my postings and the other would the amount of comments I receive. I am aware if you receive a comment from a posting then at least five people have read the posting and thought of the same thing but did not take the time to comment. If a blog has prompted someone to take time out to leave a remark after reading I consider the blog successful.

Most of the comments I receive are positive or neutral while many others are informative. Once in a while a scathing comment from someone who disagrees with my view or disputes the accuracy of what I posted. For some reason most of these send these comment incognito. (Thus eliminating a chance for me to respond)

Upon checking my comments a few days ago, I had a first occurrence where someone left a bunch of links to everyone’s favorite on line medications, Viagra, etc. After I chuckled to myself I deleted because if you blog can be seen by the public someone checking might not get the best impression. I thought these types of messages as a rule entered into spam filters never to reach the intended persons inbox.

In short, perhaps this is a new method’s for spammers to send messages no one wants
to see. Let’s face facts, I did read the “comment” and took the few minutes to write this blog.

With that said, I will move past my temporary annoyance and look at the big picture. At least someone took the time put to comment on my blog.

Another veterans day by Tony Green

Today is Veteran’s day 2009. On this day every year all Americans including veterans to take time out to think about the serviceman who died in service of their county as well as those now are placing themselves in harm’s way.

I wanted to wear my pin of the U.S. Flag which I purchased after 9-11, and then on second thought I decided to do something a little different this year.
During a newscast on television a young lady, for some reason, happened to be wearing a pair of dog tags. I found it difficult to tell the reason why she had them on. Perhaps her significant other was a service member, or maybe she thought wearing them was fashionable.

For those of you who are not aware, these are issued to you once you join the military in the event you are killed in combat as a method of identifying you. The ovular shaped piece of metal identifies your name, social security number, blood type and religious preference. As a rule, a G.I. is given two pairs of tags which you are supposed to wear in any combat situation.

I served my enlistment in the service in between the two Gulf Wars (1991 & 2003) and I had not worn them since saw them for the first time in basic training over 15 years ago.

I thought it would be a good idea to wear them for old time’s sake as tribute to the guys who were wearing their tags in the event of something unfortunate happened, which is a fact of life for any military personnel in particular those in a combat situation.

The thought of wearing them prompted me to look in my place where I keep all of my effects from my time in the military. In time I found them.
When I put them on they felt strange at first as the cold metal rubbed against my chest but once I got accustomed to the clanging sound (I had lost my rubber silencers a long time ago) wearing my old tags proved to be no problem at all.

Today is Veteran’s day after all. It is the least I can do.

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