Desert Storm (Read 1,038 times)

I've been watching "We Were Soldiers" tonight, and got a bit nostalgic of my Army days. I googled my old unit, the 1st Armored Division, and found this web page. It's a history of my division during that war. I've never seen this web site before. You have to go to the third page before you'll be able to click the "next page" link at the bottom of each page.

webspace.webring.com/people/kd/da_bonehead/1ad/intro.html

I almost fell out of my chair when I saw what was there. Seriously. Instead, I had to walk around the house for a bit to shake the shock out.

If you go page by page you will see several graphics. Except for the very first graphic on page two I created every single one of them. Me. Yes, I did every single one of them. That is my work.

They were created on an old graphics program that I can't even remember the name of. It was pre-Photoshop obviously. In fact,, the best printer we had wasn't even a printer per-se. It was a plotter! We used it mostly to create maps! The division G-2 (Intelligence Officer) asked me to create a graphic history of our movements. I made those while we were still in Iraq after the cease fire from maps we had in the intel section while the information was fresh. You can probably see it is very basic, but at the time the technology to do that really amazed us.

I do know that those graphics were published in a division produced history magazine which I have, but I never thought anyone would ever put this on the internet. Of course, they are works of a soldier for the military, so I can never claim any of it for personal gain. I wouldn't do that anyway. It's our history, and I'm glad to have done it.

I just never thought I would see that stuff just by doing a search. Again, I am speechless.

Wow.

Mark