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Lakeland College Presentation - Madison Campus
This entry was posted on 9/16/2008 11:05 PM and is filed under Presentations of Bob.
Last week I had a chance to give a presentation to the "Business and Professional Rhetoric class" at the Lakeland College Madison Campus. The professor is Dr. Paul Rux. I received a letter of thanks signed by the whole class.
I never ceases to amaze me as to how many applications my work in Iraq as a writer can be applied. My work is like a small business after all. I must convince people it is a worthwhile endeavor to learn about a place we are conducting a war. I suppose rhetoric is a appropriate albeit a forgotten way to argue the point that we made a mistake, in my mind at least, by not understanding the Vietnamese culture even after such a long war there. My mantra is that we have made the same mistake again in Iraq - now also a long war.
I thoroughly enjoy sharing my findings from my two trips to Iraq with audiences be they two people or two hundred. My many thanks to Dr. Rux and all his students.
Wisconsin military service person of the week
Army Staff Sergeant Stephen G. Martin, 39. Staff Sergeant Martin died Friday, July 1, 2004, at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. He had been flown to Walter Reed from a medical facility in Germany. Staff Sergeant Martin was a member of the Sheboygan-based Army Reserve, 330th Military Police Detachment. He was wounded in Iraq when a truck bomb exploded June 24, near his checkpoint outside an American military compound in Mosul. It is the same incident that killed Sergeant Charles Kiser, 37 (remembered in last week's Cool Dadio blog postings) of Cleveland, Wisconsin and also from the 330th. Their unit was engaging an approaching truck, the truck exploded, killing Kiser and fatally wounding Martin. Stephen was a New Jersey native. According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, he joined the Rhinelander police as a patrol officer in February 1996. He was a police sergeant at the time of his death. He worked in the bicycle patrol and the city's schools. Sergeant Martin had been prior-military-service and joined the Army Reserve in a Military Police unit in Sheboygan in January 2003. The unit was activated in December 2003, and sent to Iraq. The Journal Sentinel went on to mention Martin helped train Iraqi police and worked in emergency medical services and fire training. Staff Sergeant Stephen Martin was the 20th Wisconsin military service person to be killed in Iraq since Spring 2003.
As of this blog entry's posting date:
86,661 Iraqi civilians have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
8,530 Iraqi Security Forces have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
4,147 Americans have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
576 Americans have been killed in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
314 Coalition soldiers have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
360 Coalition soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
30,561 U.S. troops have been wounded in action in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
2,379 U.S. troops have been wounded in action in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
91 Wisconsin soldiers have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
11 Wisconsin soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
130 journalists (several nationalities) have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
15 journalists (various nationalities) have been killed in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
Soldier of the week, military casualty, and journalist casualty information sources: Committee to Protect Journalists; cnn.com; Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; washingtonpost.com; thehighground.org; Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs; iraqbodycount.org; and, icasualties.org.
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