Valour IT Team Marines
Who does America call when it absolutely, positively has to be destroyed overnight?
U.S. Marine Rat
That’s right… America’s 911 Force: the Few. The Loud. The Marine team!
The lovely Cassandra of Villainous Company, who is married to an Afghanistan-deployed Marine, recruited me for this year’s Valour IT USMC team … not for the actual Marines, thank God, because that sounds like too many pushups. She’s still looking for a few good blogs. Take it away, Cassandra:
We’re still looking for a few good blogs to help us raise money for Project Valour IT. The competition starts Monday, October 26th and though the Marines are the smallest service, we’re planning to chew through the competition. But to do that, we need your help.
Project Valour IT provides laptops with voice activated software to wounded soldiers, sailors, Marines and airmen at Walter Reed and Bethesda. Typically these young men and women spend up to two years recovering and undergoing physical therapy. Their courage, determination, and unfailing esprit de corps are truly inspiring. Most of us, facing the loss of our eyesight, an arm or a leg and repeated surgeries would just crumble up into a ball. Not these guys. They’re warriors.
It’s not unusual for these young men and women to take up bungee jumping, skydiving, or participate in marathons or other extreme sports even after losing a limb. But that long period where they’re confined to their hospital beds can be the worst of all. Project Valour IT provides them with a way to escape the confines of their rooms and keep in touch with buddies, friends and family members. For many wounded vets, it’s a tangible reminder that they’re still part of the world outside Bethesda or Walter Reed: that there is life after being wounded.
Valour IT is one of my favorite military charities. I’ve supported it every year and led the Marine Team to raise over $51,000 in 2006. My co-captain Carrie and I are planning two weeks of fun, jokes, Marine history, culture, heroes and more. Carrie’s son is headed over to Afghanistan and my husband is already over there, so we both have good reason to support the great work Valour IT is doing.
Valour IT is a cause you can support with confidence that your donation will be well spent. Every dollar raised goes directly to wounded vets at the following military medical centers as well as VA treatment centers nationwide:
* Balboa Naval Hospital
* Brooke Army Medical Center
* Madigan Regional Medical Center
* National Naval Medical Center (Bethesda Naval Hospital)
* Naval Hospital, Camp Pendleton
* Robert E. Bush Naval Hospital (29 Palms)
* Walter Reed Army Medical Center
So now you have the mission. What we need now is a strong team. Please sign up for the Marine team, and tell all your friends. You can join here and see the great blogs who’ve already proudly donned the title, “Marine team”.
But most of all, remember — we’re planning to have fun. Because although they’re all business, no one rocks the house like the United States Marine Corps:
Yeah. What Cassandra said. They gave for you. Give as you can. Drive up the mercury in that little thermometer widget at left.
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Posted by Jules Crittenden at 12:42 pm on Saturday, October 24, 2009
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October 24th, 2009 at 1:06 pm
FOOLISH INFIDELS!!!
You cannot defeat Moqtada with your smooth dance moves and peppy talk! And to the Great Shaitan Crittenden, Moqtada has a special message:
“May a thousand irritable Camel Spiders infest your jockey shorts! Your so-called Surge was a failure - just ask your President Obama!
We are not beaten.
No! The Faithful of Allah are merely toying with you! The armies of Jihad will never give up until you establish a dialog with us and validate our feelings of Islamist rage! And we want unicorns! Pink unicorns with ribbons braided into their manes!”
October 24th, 2009 at 5:21 pm
Yeah Moq, but can you do the moves?
No?
Next reality contestant please.
October 25th, 2009 at 6:54 am
I will do my best and am passing the message out to the Right Reasons.
October 25th, 2009 at 6:56 am
The link is here.
http://www.therightreasons.net/index.php?/topic/16837-the-right-reasons-coffee-shop/page__view__findpost__p__232217
October 26th, 2009 at 10:20 am
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