Posted on 12/18/2010 10:44:07 AM PST by Kaslin
FORT LEWIS, Wa. — Mark Zuckerberg is a name I grew quite familiar with even through my year in Kandahar. Facebook was the novelty through which I interacted with most of the world back home. Though it was accessible only on our trips to the forward operating base — no connectivity on our stranded outpost in the Zhari District. Despite all that Facebook meant to me while at war, I was less than thrilled to find that Mr. Zuckerberg had been named Time Magazine’s Person of the Year.
The distinguished title goes to the man or woman deemed to have had the most influence through the year’s events. Other notable names on the short list included Julian Assange of WikiLeaks, Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai, The Tea Party, and the Chilean Miners.
As I read through this year’s selection summary, my eyes scanned for even the mention of one name. A name that has grown to mean so much to so many Americans, but unfortunately too few to be considered “influential”. That man was Staff Sgt. Salvatore A. Giunta: the first Congressional Medal of Honor recipient in the Global War on Terror, and the youngest living recipient by 35 years (he is 25 years old, there are three living recipients who are currently 60 years old).
I stared at Zuckerberg’s bright pale face on the cover of Time; his skin almost as white as the pages upon which the article was written. I contrasted it with the deep tan covering my soldiers’ faces along contours not covered by eye-protection and chin-straps.
(Excerpt) Read more at atwar.blogs.nytimes.com ...
Person of year = Justin Bieber.
Pfffffffffffft LOL
You forgot the sarcasm tag.
I'd disagree that there's anything distinguished about it.
If they were going to make Mark POTY they should have done it 3 or 4 years ago (when FB was still relatively new and hip). Who is the CEO of Twitter and will he be Time’s POTY next year? My guess is yes.
"(he is 25 years old, there are three living recipients who are currently 60 years old). "
There is a commercial running in my region that I think is about service to country. It shows testimonial comments by dozens of men appearing to be Medal of Honor winners.
The winner gets to have dinner with Paul Krugman and his cat.
POTY - The actress playing the role of Eva Gonzalez in ‘Eva Luna’.
Staff Sgt. Salvatore A. Giunta
BTTT
Well, a guy could do worse.
She'd have to agree to get rid of the naval ring, though. :O)
I’ll take dinner with the cat.
I like Maine Coon, hopefully he treats that cat better than he seems to care about people.
You seem to be the only one who actually read the editorial.
You bet.
Puh
Leeze.
Phooey! Sarah Palin. Definitely Sarah. Zogby is right.
Nice comments after the article.
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