“Project Valour-IT provides voice-controlled software and laptop computers to wounded Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines recovering from hand and arm injuries or amputations. Operating laptops by speaking into a microphone, our wounded heroes are able to send and receive messages from friends and loved ones, surf the ‘Net, and communicate with buddies still in the field without having to press a key or move a mouse.”
For those of us who can’t be there, we can find other ways to help. Don’t just SAY you support the troops, support them!
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Project IT Blog is here. It is a project of Soldier’s Angels.
Donations can be made to Soldier’s Angels here.
Mrs. Greyhawk gives some examples of the kinds of people who receive the laptops.
John at Argghhh! says he’ll give a ‘Cluebat of Argghhh!’ to the first 10 who donate at least $100 and show receipt. I think you’d better hurry, the last time I checked there were just 2 bats left!
From My Position also has an offer. Go see what it is.
Anna at A Rose by any Other Name says:
This is a really important program. It literally gives our wounded soldiers a semblance of a normal life after catastrophic injury. So, if you’ve wanted to support our soldiers, but you weren’t sure how, please consider donating to Valour-IT or adopt a soldier through Soldiers’ Angels. Show our men and women in uniform that we care and we will do whatever we can to help them. Thank you.
Others bursting over this: You Betcha I’m a Proud Army Mom, Echo9er, The Thunder Run, One Marines View, Thoughts by Seawitch, Fuzzilicious Thinking, Blackfive, DadManly, Small Town Veteran, Da Goddess, Homefront Six, Winds of Change, Media Lies, Boston Maggie, Technography, Indepundit, Rightly in a Lefty State, Landry’s Life, The Countervailing Force, Contact Right, Cool Blue Blog, High Desert Wanderer, My Side of the Puddle, Silent Running, Cowboy Blob
Open posts: Freedom Watch, Case-Notes from the Artsy Asylum, Third World County, Planck’s Constant
UPDATE at Argghhh! - Get the lastest there! Don’t let this fall by the wayside - keep up the good work and keep this program going.
~~Thanks to everybody who is supporting our troops in any way you can!~~
June 13th, 2006 at 9:26 pm
Project Valour-IT…
New stuff comes in below this post. Consider your young soldier of today. Wired. Connected. So used to using keyboards they can thumb-type faster than I can type in a regular way - and I’m pretty good, actually. Then take……
June 14th, 2006 at 9:02 am
Project Valour-IT update….
New stuff comes in below. I’ll avoid a sense of tartness, given the *tens* of thousands of readers of the participating blogs (even allowing for a huge overlap) - but the 97 (as of yesterday evening) of you who’ve donated……
June 14th, 2006 at 10:38 pm
To say I am sickened by the actions of these cowards wearing American uniforms who killed, among others, a 77-year-old man in a wheelchair would be a mild understatement. They are no better than the terrorists that killed a wheelchair bound Jewish man on an ocean liner many years ago. To understand that the command structure in the Marines may have attempted to cover-up the brutality of the killings is stunning and yet another sign that the modern day military is riddled with problems.
It is because of enterprising reporters who challenged a clearly bogus military report that we are able to even be aware of the murder spree these marines committed in their quest to spread democracy. The small town of Haditha will be, sadly, as infamous of some scenes of savage atrocities committed in Vietnam. Pictures taken by marines will show children shot in the head, and others killed in their beds. The American public can expect, like members of Congress, to be prepared for weeks to come for the worst side of the U.S. military to be brought into their homes daily at the top of the fold in newspapers.
I have long argued there are two types of people in the military. The minority group is better educated and career oriented. They are not soldiers for life and have an open mind about a host of issues be they political, social and philosophical. They do not walk lock step with ‘the military mind-set,’ and jettison the military as soon as they can. One such example I know personally came back after 3 months in Iraq and was deeply troubled by the sights he saw. He was also wary of many of the other American soldiers, as they were clearly rednecks with no ability to reason. He did not talk openly with them as they were clearly more brawn than brain, and as a result he did not feel safe.
I have strongly suspected after decades of watching and listening to those who are connected with the military that the vast majority are made up of those who never would have been able to go get into college and had no other economic opportunity than the military option. Some even had the college funds from the military to attend school and were unable to compete academically. I think that is awfully sad. This group is by-and-large Republican and inculcated in military dogma from foreign policy to their zealous homophobia. They are the perfect types to take orders, as they have no ability to question why. That is equally sad as they suffer from a flawed educational system and as a result never have the chance to get up the economic ladder. So they opt for the military and as such see first hand the missteps of our leaders.
But when these large, dumb, and fully armed bunch go on murdering tirades in a fragile international hotspot it is time to wonder if we really want the bottom of the barrel defending our country. Perhaps it is time to be more circumspect about what qualities we want in a solider. Some may argue strongly with my views in public but privately know how we appropriate members of the military is not serving the country well.
The prison scandal in Iraq was highly embarrassing and troubling and did great damage to our image in the Muslim world. The pictures of the carnage left by marines with more testosterone than morals fill all of us with shame and regret about what garbage we produce in this country.
June 14th, 2006 at 10:50 pm
Allen, your guys lost the elections. Get over it and support your country. You can have another election soon and maybe one of your guys will win then. That’s how democracy works.
BTW - Clinton didn’t win by a popular majority ya know.