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Found the following on DVIDS. Please visit the blog Katie Glenn created for military kids and pass the link along. I will be tweeting it on #militarymon tomorrow.

Military Dependent Creates Blog As Outlet for Kids of Deployed Personnel

Courtesy Story
Posted: 07.19.2009 08:44

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Katie Glenn, daughter of U.S. Army Col. Harry C. Glenn, chief of staff of the Multi-National Security Transition Command – Iraq, has created a cool way for kids of deployed military personnel to express their feelings about their parent being away or the loss of a parent in Iraq or Afghanistan.

Katie is a senior at American University in Washington, D.C. and came up with the idea to start a blog after she took a new media course. “I read a lot of articles on how political campaigns, charities and social activism organizations were learning to use new forms of media like Twitter, Facebook, texting and blogs to get the message out.”

A non-profit organization, Families United, helped Katie to create the website, www.militarykidsblog.com. She worked as a Military Family Fellow during an internship program earlier this year. She thought her idea for a website was something they would be interested in supporting. “I learned a lot about how Families United helped military families to get their voices heard.” Kids can go onto the site and put their feelings into words. They can link up with other kids who might be going through similar emotions. “I love it so far. I have been reading the different posts that have been going up. I can identify with a lot of it. Sometimes it feels safer to talk to someone you can’t see or you feel better when you write it down,” says Katie. Her father is currently deployed and she’s also away from home in college, so that introduced another situation in which Katie felt the blog helped her express her feelings. Col. Glenn has served 24 years in the U. S. Army and has been deployed several times, including Afghanistan and is now in Baghdad, Iraq. “I believe any time people can discuss issues with those who are in like circumstances is a good thing. If it just allows them to relieve a little stress, it is worth it,” remarked Col. Glenn.

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