BLACKFIVE: Angel in the Desert

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Every cent raised for Project Valour-IT goes directly to the purchase and shipment of voice-activated laptops for wounded servicemembers. As of October 2006, Valour-IT has distributed nearly 600 laptops to severely wounded Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines across the country.

As I write this, the Army team has made it to almost $36,000. Our goal is $45,000. Won’t you help us?

Here we are, the Army team:

3fgburner
A Day In Iraq
A Second Hand Conjecture
A Storm In Afghanistan
Adjusting to life after serving in Iraq
American Soldier
Andi’s World
Andrew Olmsted
Armchair Generalist
ArmyWifeToddlerMom
Babalu Blog
Badgers Forward
Bear Creek Ledger
Billoblog
Blackfive (Our Fearless Leader!)
Blue Crab Boulevard
Castle Argghhh!
Cheeseburgers in Paradise
Chez Diva
Combs Spouts Off
Conservative Musings
Cop The Truth
Crash-Land
Cursed by a Classical Education
Dadmanley
Daniel in Brookline
Dhimmi This!
From My Position… On the way!
G.R.I.T.S. a/k/a Keep My Soldier Safe
Gazing at the Flag
Hitting Metal with a Hammer
HomeFront Six
Hooah Wife
IMAO (RightWingDuck)
In Training
INDCJournal
Infamy or Praise
Irons in the Fire
Ladies Logic
maggies meanderings and shameless plugs
Milblogging.com
Military Families Voice of Victory
Military Matters- Uncle Jimbo
Miss Ladybug
mr. blackandwhite
Mudville Gazette
Musing Minds
My Life As A Military Spouse
My Music Highway
My Side of the Puddle
No More Spin
NoisyRoom.net
Not Exactly Rocket Science
Outside the Beltway | OTB
Patiently Waiting….
Pereiraville
periapsis.org
Prochein Amy
Random Thoughts
Recruiting Tirade
Return of the Conservatives
Reverse Retina
Righty in a lefty state
Sabot Loaded
Seixon
Sgt Hook
Shultz Infosystems
Signaleer
sisu
Some Soldier’s Mom
Sons of the Republic
Sunny Wisconsin Weather
Tammi’s World
Target Centermass
Technicalities
Techography
That Fallen Angel
The Fast Squirrel
The Missal
The Patriette
The Pugil Stick
The Pumpkin Spy
The Thunder Run
Ushanka.us
Whizbang
Wild Tangents
You Betcha I’m a Proud ARMY Mom

Want to be part of something big?

Valour-IT’s online fundraising competition begins today! Let’s see who can raise the most money to help reconnect our wounded warriors with the world!

WHAT: Friendly fundraising competition for Valour-IT.
WHEN: October 30th through Veterans Day, November 10th .
WHERE: Based in the blogosphere, spreading everywhere else.
WHY: Because giving wounded warriors with hand and arm injuries access to a computer supports their healing and puts them back in touch with the world.
HOW: Blogger teams will be divided along military branches, with civilians “up for grabs.”

The lines are drawn by service rivalry:

Jarheads (Marines) will be led by Villainous Company
Zoomies (Air Force) will be led by Op-For
Squids (Navy) will be led by Chaotic Synaptic Activity.
Doggies (Army) led by Matt and Jim of Blackfive

Non-military bloggers should choose a branch the Army to support.

Now, normally, I don’t take part in the brutal gentle inter-service rivalry, especially during war. But this is for a very important charity. So, civilian bloggers, choose your branch. Choose wisely…

Sign up for the Army team by enlisting at the Project Valour-IT site and click (under Army) “Join”. We’ll generate links, buzz, and get these heroes some Commo support!
What Valour-IT Needs From You:

• Blog and email regularly about Valour-IT and the competition
• Tell your friends, family and neighbors about Valour-IT
• Put up these flyers around your community (I put one up at my local Starbucks).

I know this is a good cause. They provide laptops to military personal at various medical institutions that are specially equipped to handle whatever the needs are for the person. The best example is a laptop with advanced speech recognition for a person who has lost use of their hands. It’s a wonderful thing to do for someone who has given up so much in defense of your freedoms. Is it really too much to ask to give something back?

The donate button is to the right in the sidebar. Please consider dropping a few bucks in the bucket.

At a time when we have young men and women dyeing overseas in combat, it’s more import than ever for us to remember the sacrifices they and all those who have gone before them have made.

Don’t let the day be all about not going to work, cooking out, or going to the pool. Also, don’t make it about policy. It doesn’t matter what you think about the wars we’ve fought or are fighting. This day is about the people who made the supreme sacrifice. Let’s not desecrate their honor by making it about anything else. Just keep them in your thoughts an prayers.

Eternal rest grant unto them oh Lord. And may perpetual light shine on them. May the souls of the faithful departed through the mercy of God rest in peace. Amen.

WASHINGTON (CNS) — With the permission of the Vatican, the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services has begun an inquiry that could lead to the canonization of Maryknoll Father Vincent R. Capodanno, a U.S. Navy chaplain who died in 1967 while serving with the Marines in Vietnam.

Go read the whole thing, it’s a great story. Also please be sure to say a prayer for the conoization of servant of God Vincent R. Capodanno.

Anyway, Blackfive has some of these photos, but they are the ones the MSM were afraid to publish. Warning! These are not for the weak hearted!

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