The name/acronym is a bit awkward: Project Valour-IT (Voice-Activated Laptops for OUR Injured Troops)

Despite that, the project is worthwhile, “a rose by any other name…”

From the project website:

Project Valour IT, in memory of SFC William V. Ziegenfuss, provides voice-controlled software and laptop computers to wounded Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines recovering from hand and arm injuries or amputations at major military medical centers. 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. The experience of CPT Charles “Chuck” Ziegenfuss, a partner in the project who suffered hand wounds while serving in Iraq, illustrates how important this voice-controlled software can be to a wounded service member’s recovery.

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I have the software they are planning to use. It works.

There are a number of folks working on fund raising for this worthy project who can give you more details than I can from here in France.

Get more information, and then please donate if you can.

Regardless of whether you supported the war or not, here is a chance to directly “support the troops” that accomplishes a good that can be pointed to, much more than a car magnet or a mouthed platitude.

In other words, you can put your money where your mouth is; this is non-political, this is simply doing some good for some people who deserve better from us.

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