Here's my next installment in ongoing blogs. I've been concentrating on sites that are fairly up to date and active, but at times I've gotten sidetracked into older, inactive blogs. There are lots of interesting blogs out there that are no longer being updated for a variety of reasons, including being stopped by censors or just out of a concern for security where the writer himself has stopped voluntarily.

An example of the latter is actually a very good read. Even though nothing new has been posted since Tuesday, November 08, 2005 the blogger had been writing fairly consistently since the first entry on Wednesday, July 09, 2003. At that time, he was being sent to the DMZ in Korea for a year. His last entry was written from Iraq. What made the journey even more interesting is the writer's occupation: Captain Brad P. Lewis is an Army Chaplain.

In his last entry he wrote:
"We are a nation at war. Our enemy is both tenacious and intelligent. He will do whatever he can to defeat us and will exploit every possible bit of information to inflict damage on the US and our allies. Even the most seemingly innocuous comments can be used by the enemy to harm us or our interests. Operational Security continues to be an issue for our Armed Forces. Therefore, it is with a heavy heart that I must back away from the blogging community for an indefinite period, perhaps permanently. It would be easy to point a finger and blame someone or something but I won’t do that. It would also be easy to kick and scream about my rights or my desires, but that would be inappropriate. I love my soldiers and want to do what is best for them; even if it means not doing something that I love, like writing."

http://chaplain.blogspot.com/


Though Chaplain Lewis stopped his military blog, he has several other blogs out there that are also worth a look.

Occasional Poetry, written throughout 2004
http://armypoet.blogspot.com/

In Words, Finding God in the Everyday!
written in August and September 2003
http://inwords.blogspot.com/

The most current endeavour has written contributions from the whole Lewis family. It's like a window into a typical US family.

Grandkids Gazette
News and Stories About the Next Generation of Lewis'
http://gkgazette.blogspot.com/

At least from this blog we can see that he is safely back home in the USA.