Technology advances. Time was you had to wait for months to receive mail from your loved one in a theater of war. Today, they are often an instantaneous email away. Or, sometimes, you are able to message and web cam in real time. When my son was in Iraq all of these occurred.
And with the proliferation of laptops and such, many soldiers, sailors, and airman have blogged of their experience.
Captain Chuck Ziegenfuss is one such soldier blogger. But when a combat injury deprived him of the use of his hands, at least temporarily, he needed new technology to continue blogging. Soldier's Angels came to the rescue.
When Ziegenfuss emerged from the fog of pain medication, Soldiers' Angels got him a computer -- and, because of his heavily bandaged left hand, where he lost a pinky, added voice-activated software. He got back online with his popular blog, Tcoverride.blogspot.com. It's gotten 90,000 hits in the past three months.
Now Soldier's Angels had a new mission (adding to all the rest) to get 150 laptops for each military medical center to be used by recovering personel.
Captain Ziegenfuss is better now and doesn't need a voice activated laptop anymore. But there are many others who do. And at the moment, the Soldier's Angels are only 11 laptops and $7,000 from the goal.
Get all the details at Castle Argghhh! and consider donating for our heros who have given much to us.
And this year, author and blogger Pamela Ribon's focus for the Dewey Donation System is the Harrison County Library System, in Mississippi which was severly affected by Hurricane Katrina last year. Get the details over at Whatever and contribute what you can.
