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Blogs Give New View From War
The News and Observer  |  August 13, 2005

BAGHDAD, IRAQ - There were no reporters riding shotgun on the highway 
north of Baghdad when a roadside bomb sent Sgt. Elizabeth Le Bel's 
Humvee lurching into a concrete barrier. The Army released a 
three-sentence statement about the incident in which her driver, a 
fellow soldier, was killed. Most news stories that day noted it with 
just a few words.

But a vivid account of the attack appeared on the Internet within hours 
of the crash Dec. 4. Unable to sleep after arriving at the hospital, Le 
Bel hobbled to a computer and typed 1,000 words of what she called "my 
little war story" into her Web log, or blog, titled Life in this Girl's 
Army, at www.sgtlizzie.blogspot.com.

http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,FL_blogs_081305,00.html?ESRC=army.nl