I don't watch network news -- ever. however, I was hoping to see how NBC dealt with MSNBC's David Shuster and the sh!t-storm over his "pimping out Chelsea" comment. The didn't. But I did end up seeing one of the most fascinating stories about blogging ever -- a voice from the distant past, digitalized for our edification and education.

This is part of a convergence of events around WWI that has taken place in my life over the last few weeks.

Right before Christmas, one of the men from our church gave me a copy of his father's WWI memoir, Argonne Days in World War I. I find it humbling to read the words of an actual doughboy, who constructed this memoir from notes kept in a book of scripture given him and his fellow soldiers by the YMCA.

As i'm working my way through the book, I am also preparing to teach about "The Great War" in the next couple weeks, so I am re-immersing myself in the ins-and-outs of the conflict.

And now I this fascinating website, composed of slowly unfolding letters of a British Tommy, William Henry Bonser Lamin, better known as Harry to his family and his mates. It makes for fascinating reading, nine decades after they were first written.

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