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Please support Soldiers' Angels and Project Valour-IT

I don't have any "inside information" on the program and I don't have the writing skills to inspire you like I wish I could, so please just go read here and here and then click the donation button right under the laptop picture on my left sidebar. Let's show our troops we really do care.

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Don't miss Blackfive's post here or John Donovan's here.

Posted by Bill Faith on June 14, 2006 at 08:09 PM in Valour-IT | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

This post will remain in this spot through November 11th. Please scroll down for updates and newer posts.

Click the image to see the C&F post that goes with it.

See all of my Valour-IT posts in one place here.

Click here to join a fundraising team or to see how the other teams are doing.

Don't have a blog but want to help drum up donations anyway? How about emailing one of the links from Holly Aho's post here? You can also click here to download flyers to post around the neighborhood or snail-mail to your friends and family.

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Not convinced you should help out yet? Go read Joe's Angel and tell me this ain't a good cause.

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It's good to see Michelle Malkin is helping publicize Valour-IT. She reaches a lot of people the MilBlogs don't and her help will mean a lot.

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Soldiers' Angel Holly Aho is hosting a Valour-IT trackback party. It looks to me like a great way to see what other bloggers  are doing to help out. Check it out.

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I just found out Cox & Forkum have donated the rights to the cartoon at the top of this post to Project Valour-IT and it's going to be available on t-shirts, mugs, etc.  Best news I've had all day.

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Want to own the original of that cartoon at the top of this post? You can! Click here for details.

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Chris Muir has just announced he's auctioning off  a made-to-order Day By Day strip! (Hat tip: Blackfive.)

Hat tip Blackfive also (same post) for the location of the master Valour-IT auction site. (I'm auctioning off some ad space on this site if anyone's interested.)

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(This post will grow as time goes on.)

Posted by Bill Faith on November 11, 2005 at 11:59 PM in Valour-IT | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack

Chris Muir has just announced he's auctioning off a made-to-order Day By Day strip! (Hat tip: Blackfive.)

Hat tip Blackfive also (same post) for the location of the master Valour-IT auction site. (I'm auctioning off some ad space on this site if anyone's interested.)

See all of my Valour-IT posts in one place here.

Click here to join a fundraising team or to see how the other teams are doing.

Don't have a blog but want to help drum up donations anyway? How about emailing one of the links from Holly Aho's post here? You can also click here to download flyers to post around the neighborhood or snail-mail to your friends and family.

Posted by Bill Faith on November 9, 2005 at 09:55 PM in Valour-IT | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Hey y'all, remember this picture? It's the one John Cox drew after John Donovan and I suggested it. Guess what? You can own the original! All you have to do is click on the picture, click the "CLICK HERE TO PLACE YOUR BID!" link, and keep increasing your bid till everyone else gives up. Simple, huh?

Posted by Bill Faith on November 8, 2005 at 06:43 PM in Valour-IT | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Copied in it's entirety from http://tcoverride.blogspot.com/2005/11/publicity-stunt.html. Written by Captain Chuck Ziegenfuss using the voice-recognition software Valour-IT will provide to as many other wounded warriors as your donations permit:

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Publicity Stunt

Mkay... I dragged my drugged and temporarily one-handed body out of the hospital bed to tell ya'll about something most important.

Carren is gonna be on national TV (and live national TV at that) to let everyone know about Project Valour-IT. She will represent me (the nerd who thought of this project), and the many people who have made this project a success.

She is going to be on "Connected coast to coast" a show run by MSNBC. Don't know how long she'll be on, but for the love of god, please tune in, put your hands on the top of your TV, and talk to Jebus when the show is over. The show runs from 1200-1300 (noon to one fer ya civlians out there)(and that's eastern time) My beloved is supposed to be on around 1240, but I will rest assured that her looks, personality, and general charm will either get her on early, or the show will go into extra rounds like Rocky and the Big Ruskie in Rocky IV.

Here's how you can help. Send this to every one you know, post it on your blog, get them to post it on theirs. One side will say it's a failure of the gummint to not prvide this for the soldiers, others just see it as a way to help our brothers and sisters who have fallen but will be getting up. However they spin it, just get the word out.

There's less than 18 hours to game time, so let's get our blog on!

--Chuck

p.s. I met the Secrtary of the Army a few days ago. I don't remember most of our conversation (because pain killers do that to you, espcially at the level I'm taking them...think chevy chase (or was it Dan Akroyd?) in "Modern Problems". But I brought two things to his attention: 1. It's stupid and a waste of manpower to hold a medical review board for a guy who's lost a finger 2. I pitched Valour-IT to him. He thinks it's a great idea. He was pressed for time, so his aide took the info sheets we gave him and gave us his card...and told us to call if we don't hear anything about it in two weeks!

Cross post the hell out of this.

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Get on it people; it's important.

Posted by Bill Faith on November 8, 2005 at 06:22 PM in Valour-IT | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Click the cartoon to read Mike's accompanying post about a much better solution.

Previous posts here, here, and here.  Click here to join a fundraising team or to see how the other teams are doing.

Don't have a blog but want to help drum up donations? How about emailing one of the links from Holly Aho's post here? You can also click here to download flyers to post around the neighborhood or snail-mail to your friends and family.

See all of my Valour-IT posts in one place here.

Posted by Bill Faith on November 4, 2005 at 02:56 AM in Valour-IT | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

(Previous posts here and here.)

From the Valour-IT home page:

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Project Valour-IT
(Voice-Activated Laptops for OUR Injured Troops)
In memory of SFC William V. Ziegenfuss

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 servicemember's recovery.

Read More...

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Did I mention tax deductions?

NZ Bear says:

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If this isn't a worthy cause, I don't know what is:

Goal: The goal of the Project Valour-IT fundraiser is to raise enough money for 30 new laptops with voice activated software for our wounded soldiers with hand and/or arm injuries. Each laptop costs approximately $685 plus shipping, so the fundraiser’s total goal is to raise $21,000.

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Bloggers, do you really want to disappoint the Bear and risk being kicked out of the whole Ecosystem?

Plagiarized from the Valour-IT blog:

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Enlist with Valour-IT!

We now have a central location for bloggers who want to join the Valour-IT fundraising competition.

Just click here and sign up for any team you choose. The link also displays the running totals for all four teams.

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John at Castle Argghhh!!! is providing the bandwidth for downloadable Valour-IT flyers you can print out and paper the neighborhood with. Click here. 

As of 19:00 CST the four military teams combined have come up with just short of $11,000 toward the $21,000 goal. OK, people, that was the easy half. We all know the money won't keep flowing at that rate after the new wears off, so please, please, don't use that as an excuse to not do your part.

Need more convincing? Go over to From My Position... and Fuzzilicious Thinking and scroll, scroll, scroll.

Update: Welcome aboard Captain Ed.

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See all of my Valour-IT posts in one place here.

Posted by Bill Faith on November 3, 2005 at 07:23 PM in Valour-IT | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

(If you haven't read Project Valor IT -- make it happen (Re-post) yet, please do that and then come back to this post.)

I don't stand a chance on improving on Mrs. Greyhawk's explanation of what this is all about, or on Blackfive's. Please read one or both, then choose from one of the following links and give till it hurts:

To credit your contribution to the Air Force team, click here.

or, if you must:

To credit your contribution to the Army team, click here

To credit your contribution to the Navy team, click here.

To credit your contribution to the Marine Corp team, click here.

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See all of my Valour-IT posts in one place here.

Posted by Bill Faith on November 2, 2005 at 08:53 PM in Valour-IT | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

I originally posted this on August 19th. I'm posting it again in honor of the Valour-IT Blogging Fundraiser Competition that started today, and which I'll tell you more about it my next post. If it puts you in the mood to donate please wait till I get that post up so you can see that your donation gets credited to the right fundraising team.

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Is there anyone who claims to be a serious blogophile who isn't familiar with CPT Chuck Ziegenfuss's story? (If there is, shame on you!) Chuck used to blog up a storm at From My Position... On the way! and was always worth a daily visit, sometimes just for a taste of his weird sense of humor but often also because of his close up and personal insight on the situation in Iraq. Then he tangled with that IED and couldn't say much for a while. He still can't type worth a damn, but he's blogging up a storm again. From his latest post:

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Project Valor IT -- make it happen

Okay, I admit it I've been on my ass about telling y'all about this. It's basically a project that came about from me recognizing the need that I had in the hospital: a way to communicate with my friends and family around the world and my complete inability to do that with the equipment at hand, namely a phone. So I asked these folks for laptop. And I asked y'all for Dragon NaturallySpeaking. Needless to say, everyone responded in a wonderful manner. Before I could swallow a handful of pills I had a laptop on my desk and I was installing the software.

Then I wondered "why can't we do this for everybody?" After all, this country put a man on the moon (of course that was what... 40 years ago?) Well, it turns out that we can do it, and for relatively low cost. We've got a company that's willing to give us the computers at or near cost, and Dragon has given Soldiers Angels a hell of a deal on the software.

So please, please go here and donate. Don't do it for me though, do it for our wounded Soldiers, Sailors and Marines and Airmen; and do it for Dad.

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OK, folks, I just committed a serious breach of netiquette.  I just copied an entire post from a wounded Soldier's blog. Maybe since it's for a worthy cause, and it was a short post anyway, if you'll all promise to go by his blog today and every day so I didn't really cost him any traffic he'll forgive me. The point here is that he didn't type that post, he spoke that post into a microphone coupled to some software that typed it for him. Chuck isn't the only wounded warrior who could benefit from technology like that -- Freedom isn't free and the need is great. Please, please, follow the links in Chuck's post to learn more about Soldiers' Angels and Project Valour  IT, then give till it hurts, then give some more.

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See all of my Valour-IT posts in one place here.

Posted by Bill Faith on November 2, 2005 at 06:15 PM in Valour-IT | Permalink | Comments (1)