Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: military

  • They Have Names

    Thanks to my mom for sharing the link to “They Have Names,” a website dedicated to the soldiers, sailors and airmen who have given their lives in the service of the United States and both need and deserve to be remembered not as simply “another statistic” in our ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but…

  • Faces of the Fallen – Supporting our soldiers and their families

    Today on July 4, 2008, we celebrate our independence day in the United States. I saw part of a documentary this afternoon about Rocky Mountain News reporter Jim Sheeler’s book “The Final Salute.” In the book, Jim documents the moving stories of US servicemen and servicewomen who are the first to speak with and support…

  • $100 million for a petaflop of performance

    Remember the ENIAC computer? (Well, I guess I’m not actually asking if you REMEMBER it– as in you SAW it in person– more if you read and learned about it in the past.) According to the current WikiPedia entry, it was unveiled in 1946 and cost approximately $500,000. ENIAC was designed and built to calculate…

  • The power of digital storytelling to help students understand immigration, sacrifices and war

    I was both impressed and thrilled by the quality of the digital stories created a couple weeks ago by the largest group of teachers we’ve had participate together to date in our statewide digital storytelling project, “Celebrate Oklahoma Voices.” My interest in and passion for digital storytelling has been fueled by multiple people and experiences,…

  • Podcast214: Surrender of the Japanese to the United States Aboard the USS Missouri (a retelling in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii)

    This podcast is a recording of a presentation shared by a docent aboard the USS Missouri battleship, now docked at Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 5, 2007. It was on September 2, 1945, in Tokyo Harbor aboard the USS Missouri that generals representing the Empire of Japan surrendered to General of the Army…

  • USS Oklahoma Memorial Dedication

    I have uploaded the entire dedication ceremony for the USS Oklahoma Memorial from December 7, 2007, in Pearl Harbor Hawaii to the OETA ftp server for subsequent transfer and posting to the NewsOK.com “Brightcove” video server. The entire ceremony was approximately two hours long. These videos will be subsequently “chunked” into pieces that are less…

  • Humanizing discussions about immigration and borders

    I have been thinking about issues relating to immigration, the politics of borders and walls, the importance of international relationships and friendships, and the responsibility we all have to tangibly promote the causes of understanding and cooperation in our own contexts and spheres of influence. Several events have influenced my thinking lately and precipitated new…

  • Cyberwarfare capacity and partial quotations by journalists

    USA Today’s headline article “Military beefs up Internet arsenal” from Wednesday suggests new offensive capabilities are in development for the U.S. war on terror. While I don’t have any insider information on this, I do know that for some time the mission of the U.S. Air Force has included fighting in cyberspace: The mission of…

  • Podcast139: Powerful and Meaningful Connections from Blogging International Students, MilBloggers, and Others (An interview with Angie Fryer)

    This podcast features an interview with my mother, Angie Fryer, recorded in a coffeeshop in Manhattan, Kansas on March 2, 2007, following the MACE conference. For several years now, my mother has read and subscribed to a number of blogs from a diverse group of people including U.S. students studying abroad in other countries, milbloggers…

  • Life in perspective, breakthrough creativity

    I listened to two NPR podcasts driving into work that really framed my thinking for the morning in powerful ways. The first was an NPR “This I Believe” podcast titled “I believe that my husband will call me tomorrow” by Becky Herz. For people who don’t have loved ones serving overseas in the military, podcasts…