{"id":447,"date":"2004-04-23T14:45:27","date_gmt":"2004-04-23T21:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/its_been_a_year\/"},"modified":"2004-04-23T14:45:27","modified_gmt":"2004-04-23T21:45:27","slug":"its_been_a_year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/its_been_a_year\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s been a year…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thank you T! I didn’t realize how much I would like blogging. I also didn’t realize how addictive it would become, and how much work it can be!
\nA year ago today I became a blogger. As I started, I hoped that I would have something to say each day, but I rapidly discovered that my style is to store up ideas for a few days and then type like crazy!
\nThere was a news story at the time that made me decide to blog. A young woman, Andrea Prosse, who was an Air Force cadet was sanctioned (unfairly, it seems) by her peers, eight days prior to graduation. She was ejected from the Academy with no degree to show for four years of work, all on the say-so of a fellow student who wanted to get even, when she rejected his advances. The Chicago Tribune carried the story, and I was incensed about the lack of ethics within our military academies. I still am. I believe that if you wish to be an officer, you need to be firmly grounded in ethical behavior, or you can’t ask men to follow your lead.
\nI browsed today, to see what, if anything, might have been reported on this story, and I’m disappointed to tell you that the only site I found mentioning her by name was my own blog entry (Air Force Woes, May, 2004.)<\/a> It seems the entire affair was swept under the rug. I suspect the men who were allowed to graduate after having run this female cadet off, are congratulating themselves on a job well done.
\nThis was one of the more serious subjects I addressed this year. Generally, I’m likely to comment on my life, gardening<\/a>, quilting<\/a>, recipes<\/a>, books <\/a>or quirky things that catch my ear or eye. Moveable Type tells me that I have 466 pages of entries and 1844 comments. My thanks go out to the school kids who were sitting in the LRC rather than disecting worms, who visited the entry called Ewwwwwww….WORMS! for raising my comment stats. Site meter has been tracking my visitors since mid July, 2003, but since at least a quarter of those visits have to be mine, I won’t share that number.
\nThere’s been an interesting benefit to blogging. It seems that it’s infinitely cheaper than visiting a shrink! I can comment about my woes and rid myself of them in the writing, or I can read the blogs of others and see that I’m not so darned crazy after all!
\nThe best thing about blogging, though, has been all the people I’ve met through the blogs, and the friends I’ve made. I’m delighted that I can read blogs from the entire English speaking world, and I frequently share them with my family. It’s become an addiction; one that I hope lasts for years.
\nThanks for sharing this year with me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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