Thursday, November 8, 2007
Project Valour-IT, in memory of SFC William V. Ziegenfuss, helps provide voice-controlled and adaptive laptop computers to wounded Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines recovering from hand wounds and other severe injuries at major military medical centers. Operating laptops by speaking into a microphone or using other adaptive technologies, 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. The experience of MAJ Charles “Chuck” Ziegenfuss, a partner in the project who suffered serious hand wounds while serving in Iraq, illustrates how important these laptops can be to a wounded service member's recovery.
For a limited time only! If you donate $25 or more to the laptops for soldiers project (Voice-Activated Laptops for OUR Injured Troops -- Valour-IT) through one of the teams (use the link or click on that graphic here on my page), you get that nifty military challenge coin shown above.