I haven’t done a tribute to my blogroll faves in quite some time. Today, I’d like to tip my hat to the top five sites currently on my blogroll whose content focuses exclusively or very heavily on the military. I should note that, while not qualifying for this little personal list, my blogroll is well stocked with veterans and current military personnel, all of which deserve your time.
5. Grim’s Hall
4. Chapomatic
3. Blackfive
2. Argghhh!!!
and, of course, the father of the MilBloggers:
I highly recommend starting each day over at the Gazette, if only for Mrs. Greyhawk’s Dawn Patrol round-up postings.
On a related note, longtime blogroll denizen Joan of Seven Inches of Sense has recently shifted focus to a group blog for a handful of military girlfriends and spouses with her Seven Inches of Service announcement:
I’ve been working on this little project and it’s time to let you all in on it.
For quite some time, a couple of years probably, I’ve belonged to a support group for girlfriends of deployed soldiers. It’s a hard life. And most people don’t understand it. So to surround yourself with a group of ladies who are living through the same purgatory you are is comforting, to say the very least.
Who else is going to understand when you tell them you’re so worried you’ve been checking the obituaries to make sure the man you love isn’t among the latest casualties and his family didn’t tell you? Who else will understand when you tell them that you passed a convoy of tanks on transport trucks and you got so swept up in the emotion of it that you drove ten miles past your exit? Who else will understand when you tell them that after two years of dating you’re nervous because you’re going on a date with your longtime boyfriend?
These are things that it sometimes seems as if people have a hard time wrapping their minds around unless they’ve been there. So, in order to hopefully shed some light on the women behind the men, and give a collective voice to the women themselves, I’m starting a new feature here at Seven Inches of Sense.
I’ve asked six other military girlfriends (one who is a wife now) from my support group, all in various stages of the military relationship (from the ended relationships to marriage), to join me here from time to time as we discuss life and our service in the silent ranks.
As any soldier knows, those in uniform are never the only ones sacrificing.