U.S. military 'shuts down' soldiers' blogs -- Newsday.com

U.S. military 'shuts down' soldiers' blogs -- Newsday.com: "anuary 2, 2006

Letters home filled with tales of death and danger, bravery and boredom are a wartime certainty.

And now, as hundreds of soldiers overseas have started keeping Internet journals about the heat, the homesickness, the bloodshed, word speeds from the battlefront faster than ever.

More and more, though, U.S. military commanders in Iraq and Afghanistan are clamping down on these military Web logs, known as milblogs.
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