WHHS Grad has top Military Blog

Posted by Bob Gernert on November 13, 2007 at 8:37 am

yon_featuredimage Michael Yon

The News Chief reported in this morning’s paper that Michael Yon, a 1982 graduate of Winter Haven High won the 2007 Weblog Award for Best Military Blog.

Yon’s blog is funded by readers and he writes, takes photos and creates video from scenes throughout Iraq. You can visit his site at www.michaelyon-online.com.

He won his award in what is described as the world’s largest blog competition. More than 525,000 votes were cast in the 2006 competition according to Weblog. There were 49 categories in the competition.

Congratulations to WHHS grad, Michael Yon.

Cheryl Beckert

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REMARKS   3 Total remarks on this post. Add your own remarks below

  • November 19th, 2007 at 8:39 pm
    Carl Kocher

    I am amazed there are no comments for a hero.

  • November 22nd, 2007 at 7:44 am
    Oren K Dowdy

    Take the time to check out Mike’s blog. He is a long time freind and I can tell you that what Mike is doing in a war zone is selfless and necessary. He works on donations and is independent of any news organization so what he writes is what he is seeing first hand without political influence. Take the time to read his stories and look at real time photos. It is moving.

  • December 5th, 2007 at 3:15 pm
    Greg H.

    He has plenty of comments at his blog. Some, are calling him a modern day Ernie Pyle. I agree wholeheartedly.

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