A Web-Wide Challenge

Laptops For The Wounded, A Web-Wide Challenge

Sun Mar 25, 2007 at 02:26:20 PM EDT
While browsing the AP link I ran across this little article that I had not seen before. With all the hoopla surrounding Walter Reed and all the other storys about our Troops being left without, it struck me that this was something we could actually help change. I have felt pretty powerless to do much to change a system that has been so dysfunctional for years and years.

I'm not that trusting of a soul either, so you can bet I wouldn't send money to anything being run by our Gov. This seems to be the real deal from what I have found with a quick Google.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Laura Brown, a mother with a son who fought in the Iraq war, is trying to improve conditions at Walter Reed Army Medical Center -- one laptop computer at a time.

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While reading the website for Laptops for the Wounded I read that group had held a 50/50 raffle to raise money for laptops. Imagine if we had such a event at our convention ? For those who don't know what a 50/50 is, it's where raffle tickets are sold, usually at a buck each, and the winner takes home 50% of the money collected. The rest goes to the cause, whatever it may be. How many tickets have been sold to YearlyKos ? hmmm.

The 50-year-old from Cody, Wyo., was chatting on the Internet with the mother of a wounded soldier two years ago when the mother mentioned she had to print out her son's e-mails and take them to him at Walter Reed because there weren't enough laptop computers to go around.

Brown, whose own son had recently returned safely from the war, thought the solution to that problem seemed incredibly easy.

How hard can be for a group like us that can thousands of dollars overnight for a Candidate we think needs our help, to raise enough money for our Wounded to have the ability to write home ? Imagine being trapped at a hospital, low on money, nothing to do or read, and bored to death. Now imagine handing this soldier a window of their own to the world. Feels pretty good don't it ?

We talk a lot about how much we support our troops. I think it's time we showed it. I know we sent lots of money for the phonecards last year. IS it time to put a challenge out to all the Left and Right Political Blogs to see how much we can collect ?

Please get behind this issue with me and issue the Challenge to every blog you frequent. I made a comment in a diary a day or 2 ago about how the Newspapers only print the News, but we make the Noise. How much noise can we make to help Laura Brown complete her mission ?

Laptops for the Wounded is a non-profit organization developed by one woman in Cody, Wyoming to help make this possible through donations. Laura Brown was blessed to have her own son return from Iraq following the first year of the war and this provides her with a measure by which she can help those not so fortunate. But it takes a lot of dedication and assistance with this work. Please close your eyes and really try to put yourself in that scenario. Please then contact Laura for more information.

This is not my typical type of diary and being disabled myself, the writing of this is about the best I can do to help. You also can help even if you don't have the money. You can post this challenge everywhere, you can rec. this diary so it hits as many readers as possible. I'm sure any donation, no matter how small can add up to another laptop for someone.

Please Pass This On As I Did!