The other day stress from work was getting to me and of all days on Sunday when I shouldn't be thinking about work and just relaxing. I snapped out of my stress by thinking that there's a lot of other people that have it much worse than me. I was reading the news and noticed that yet another soldier had died in Iraq...
I looked at some stats and noticed that although things seem to be relatively normal in my life...almost every day an American family is losing a family member. I wondered how I could remind myself of the sacrifice they were making. Twitter.com then came to mind. It sends text message updates to your phone or web timeline....if I maintained this and let others follow these updates, followers could also be reminded daily what an immense toll this war is having on America.
http://twitter.com/...
http://twitter.com/...
If you know what Twitter is see the links above else more clarification below the fold....
Here's a good explanation of what Twitter is:
http://dotsub.com/...
In a nutshell it's sort of an online chat/microblogging service on the web. However it can be configured to send timeline updates to your cellphone using text messages as well. You have friends that you follow and their updates are shown on your timeline either by accessing twitter.com or allowing twitter to send you text messages. You can follow other friends but also CNN, BBC, companies etc. have twitter accounts so you can get late breaking news, in addition to hear what your friends are currently doing.
If you follow
http://twitter.com/...
http://twitter.com/...
you'll basically be getting updates from the Department of Defense press releases:
http://www.defenselink.mil/...
Short and simple. No partisanship, no commentary, just the soldier's name and where they died...possibly the circumstances (we're limited to 140 characters).
That's all. Just trying to do my part to have everybody remember the cost of war.