August 11, 2005
Recommended Reading:
Putting your money where your mouth is...
By Jack GrantThe 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.
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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Posted by Jack Grant at 22:55 on 11 August 2005 Trackbacks (2) | permalinkNeptunus Lex linked with ValourIT
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Thanks, Jack. :) Even if the name DOES grate on your sensibilities. ;) Well, at least you called it still a rose. I suppose I could overlook your complaint, then... ;)
Seriously, thank you so much for helping put hte word out on this. And really, it's not I who should be thanking you. It's the wounded whom this project reaches who will truly be grateful.
Posted by: FbL at August 10, 2005 08:47 AMThanks for the support!
Posted by: Sean at August 13, 2005 05:57 PM
