'In many ways, the world as we knew it was ending,' veteran says 10 years later
By Gil Kaufman
Matt Gallagher in Baghdad
Photo: Matt Gallagher/ Kaboom
Back in July 2008, Matthew Gallagher's popular blog Kaboom: A Soldier's War Journal was shut down by the military brass after seven months of highly literate and very real posts about the war in Iraq. The plug was pulled after he failed to get the proper vetting for a post titled "The Only Difference Between Martyrdom and Suicide Is Press Coverage," in which he wrote candidly about a conversation with a superior officer, a breach of military protocol.
Three years after the flap caused by the shutdown, MTV News spoke to Gallagher — who turned his blog into the memoir "Kaboom: Embracing the Suck in a Savage Little War" last year — in the days leading up to the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks.
By Gil Kaufman
Matt Gallagher in Baghdad
Photo: Matt Gallagher/ Kaboom
Back in July 2008, Matthew Gallagher's popular blog Kaboom: A Soldier's War Journal was shut down by the military brass after seven months of highly literate and very real posts about the war in Iraq. The plug was pulled after he failed to get the proper vetting for a post titled "The Only Difference Between Martyrdom and Suicide Is Press Coverage," in which he wrote candidly about a conversation with a superior officer, a breach of military protocol.
Three years after the flap caused by the shutdown, MTV News spoke to Gallagher — who turned his blog into the memoir "Kaboom: Embracing the Suck in a Savage Little War" last year — in the days leading up to the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks.
- 9/9/2011
- MTV Music News
A 21-year-old Mark Daily takes his oath as a U.S. Army officer during a commissioning ceremony at U.C.L.A. on June 25, 2005. Photo courtesy of the Daily family. Remember that wild list Nyu put out a while back, of the The Top 100 Works of Journalism in the United States in the 20th Century? Well, the same mad professors are at it again, compiling the Top Ten Works of Journalism of the Decade, 2000-2009. The nominees were announced today, and among the 80 honored works—everything from Eric Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation to Martin Scorsese’s Dylan doc to Jon Stewart’s Indecision broadcasts—is one of our own: Christopher Hitchens’s “A Death in the Family” (November 2007). Rather than attempt to describe this extraordinary piece of writing in my own clumsy words, I’d like to reprint the original “dek”�and then strongly encourage you to read (or re-read) the whole thing yourself.
- 3/15/2010
- Vanity Fair
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