Wesley Fryer's Blog
Wesley Fryer's most recent blog post was about an Honor Flight in Kansas. This is actually something that I hold a great interest in because I was fortunate enough to be allowed to help with the Mobile Honor Flight back when I was working at Eastern Shore Toyota. Recently, my daughter got to go and meet her Grandpa and his father (her Great Grandpa) at the Mobile Regional Airport as they landed from the honor flight mobile. Wesley Fryer talked about how neat this experience was, and this is a piece of what she wrote:
"Last week my father had an opportunity to serve as a ‘guardian’ on a Kansas Honor Flight to Washington D.C. Approximately 25 World War II veterans flew from Kansas City and 25 from Wichita, Kansas, to our nation’s capitol to visit the National World War II Memorial as well as other historic sites."In her blogpost she added a slideshow which I have embedded here for you to see:
For those of you who do not know what an Honor Flight is I have listed the definition below, as well as a link to the: Honor Flight Website.
"The inaugural Honor Flight took place in May of 2005. Six small planes flew out of Springfield, Ohio taking twelve World War II veterans on a visit to the memorial in Washington, DC. In August of 2005, an ever-expanding waiting list of veterans led our transition to commercial airline carriers with the goal of accommodating as many veterans as possible. Partnering with HonorAir in Hendersonville, North Carolina, we formed the "Honor Flight Network." Today, we continue working aggressively to expand our programs to other cities across the nation."C4T Post #3 Comment #2
Wesley Fryer's Blog
This blog post was very different from any of the others that I have been assigned to in EDM310. Wesley Fryer got sucked into the latest frenzy; the song and the videos for "Gangnam Style".
She admits to finding them amusing and post several of her favorites onto her page. This was her post :
"I’m a bit embarrased to admit a recent lack of YouTube cultural literacy: I didn’t follow or know about the “Gangnam Style” song and video sensation until a few weeks ago. I remember hearing the song in early October when our family went to “FrightFest” at Frontier City (our local amusement park in Oklahoma City) but I didn’t know what the song was or why it was significant. Today during his presentation at EduCause, Kyle Bowen mentioned the Forbes article, “How Much Did It Cost YouTube To Stream Gangnam Style?” and it inspired me to watch a few videos this evening. My mom had mentioned these US service academy remakes of the Gangnam Style video to me a few weeks ago but until this evening I hadn’t watched them. As a USAFA grad, I found the third one in this series (below) particularly amusing. See what you think."
This was my response to her post:
"My brother asked me if I had heard of this song awhile back, and I had not until he showed me! My first thought was , is this a joke? Of course this was in response to the original video. Then I had just about forgotten about it when I heard the song come on the radio. I could not believe that it was so popular, the song seemed so silly and I don't know about you but I cannot understand a word he is saying. Soon after that all of the videos started coming out of people doing it here and there and they featured it in an episode of Saturday Night Live. The video that you said was your favorite it cute! It just makes you laugh and smile. Which is the purpose of comedy anyway, right?"
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