Reflection of the Project

So far I have been relatively successful in gathering stories, however it has been a larger learning curve than i realized in putting this all together using HTML coding.  I have prior knowledge of coding, but I have never been successful in scripting.  Making this relatively difficult.  Has anyone here ever inspected a google page and seen a mass mumbo jumbo appear on the right side of their screen?  

I have, and was fascinated by it, so I decided to teach myself how to write code.  Now I am trying to put it to use, and as I said before it is relatively difficult.  

There have been lots of things I have learned, like you start a document with then proceed to put to begin the page.  If you want to make a header you use

pretty straight forward right?  Only at first, if you want text white you have to put this This text here will now be white an now your text is white. Now say maybe you want to press enter t make a line space, nope doesn't work, you have to put
.  Or maybe you want italics, you use .

So if I wanted to make everything I just wrote above as HTML, it would be 4x as long.  Then occasionally you make a mistake, and test the page, and it doesn't work, now you get to enjoy shifting through all that code you wrote to find your fatal error.

You then proceed to get a headache, either from the constant staring at a screen, or from the amount of times you slam your head into your desk.  I can never tell.

After a some ibuprofen, you sit back down and proceed to start writing again.  Then you need to do something you have never done before, so you surf the web, browsing YouTube.  Only to find out there isn't a single tutorial on it.  If find this website to be very helpful.  Allowing you to manipulate sample code, and instantly see the results below. A couple hours later you get to repeat the process, and after a week find out you have only finished one story.  

Telling their Stories

         I have chosen to use my 20% of the school year to tell the stories of our fallen soldiers.  I have always enjoyed reading about the battles in history class.  However when I was younger whenever I saw the casualty count, to me it was like, "Awesome, we only lost 100 to their 300" as if it was only a number.  I never looked at that number as people who are no longer breathing because they chose to fight for what they believed in.  Too often these sacrifices are just dismissed in our society as meaningless, and people say that they died to fulfill some government agenda.  America has lost its sense of patriotism toward our troops.  To everyone they used to be heroes, protecting our freedom, and dying for that cause.  Soldiers have fallen in priority in society.  They have lost all importance in our average lives, maybe it is easy to forget men and women are dying overseas for a cause unknown to most.

"Those who have long enjoyed such freedoms, as we do, forget in time, that men have died to win them" - Theodore Roosevelt

        To me it doesn't matter what cause they die fighting for, wether it be some government agenda, or fighting for the men next to them.  They hung up their lives, in pursuit of a cause they believed in, a cause they trusted enough to offer their life to.

      "It is wrong and immoral to praise the dead, rather praise God such men ever lived" -George S. Patton

  In honor of their memory, and their sacrifice, I am putting together a website where I will share their stories.  I will have a short passage of when and where they fell either in combat or not.  This being said, sometimes their is not a lot of information on some of these stories. There were incidents that are more well known like Black Hawk Down, Fallujah, or Baghdad.  Then there are incidents were soldiers die without anyone knowing how. I am going to cover back as far as Somalia, and then go through tp the war on Terror.