For my blog, I chose to discuss military families. Whether it be wives, husbands, children or parents who have someone serving overseas. I currently only have 5 feeds that I’m subscribed to but will be subscribing to many more!
My favorite feed is my military podcast feed. It’s called spouseBUZZtalkradio and it’s a podcast held by mostly army wives speaking with other army wives about different things that they and there families are affected by with there husbands being overseas. The most current podcast they did was about what a deployment is like when the soldier comes home with any type of physical injuries or post-traumatic stress syndrome. My family matters blog speaks about numerous topics that have to do with ways to help families who have soldiers overseas while they are away, emotionally and financially and also when their loved ones come back. I chose these blogs because I thought they could really help me relate to women, men and children who have a father, mother, son, etc. overseas. I’ve never personally experienced that and it amazes me how strong some of these people have to be to go through that so hopefully hearing straight from them what their lives are like day to day will help me relate a little bit more.
I subscribed to the New York Times Middle East feed. This doesn’t have anything directly to do with military families but this is the war they are affected by and I hope that keeping up with that will help me understand more what they might be specifically referencing in their blogs.
Military Families Speak Out is a blog that specifically focuses on family members trying to do something about the rights of their loved ones and themselves. I thought this could help me get specific issues that are becoming of have been problems for military families. Whether it be support during the war or after.
I subscribed to milblogging because I can get it straight from our soldiers. This is probably the most direct way to stay in tune with what’s going on with them overseas. I can’t figure out how to make my subscription more specific with that one, so hopefully I’ll be able to figure it out!
I subscribed to two google news feeds that are both entitled “Military Families.” Both of these feeds pull up any topic that you can think of. I think both of these will great sources if I need to find something more specific or very recent.
I found this youtube video focused specifically on army families but I thought it focused on a lot of what my blog will be about.
sorry if the link doesn’t work…still figuring all this out. : )
