Soldier’s mom gets laptops for the wounded

[DesertRat]

What a great idea :patriot:

WASHINGTON - 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 at a time.

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 bring them to him at Walter Reed. Otherwise, her son couldn't receive them 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.
"It just kind of hit me," she said. "If one person needed one, then there's others. ... I mean, my son had e-mail in Iraq. I was really stunned."

So Brown decided to raise money for the cause. Her group, called Laptops for the Wounded, has been fundraising since November of 2005 and has now donated 27 computers to military hospitals around the country — 24 of them to Walter Reed. On Friday, Brown flew from Wyoming to bring 10 of them to the hospital herself.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17761606/

Here's her website: http://www.laptopsforthewounded.com/

[Nite Owl]

1. If they need laptops

where are the computer manufacturers and resellers? Dell, HP, Best Buy etc? They are 'red' companies, they support the GOP and therefore the war with their donations, why aren't they giving whatever is needed? It would be little to them in cost. The money she is collecting could be used for other things that they need.

[Monkeyman]

2. Yep like equipment to save their life's would be nice