ON THE CUTTING EDGE: Iraq War Mom Collecting Laptops For Wounded Vets
Laura Brown, a 50-year-old mother from Cody, WY, whose son returned uninjured from the Iraq war, is trying to improve the lives of soldiers being treated at military hospitals nationwide through an organization she founded in November 2005, Laptops for the Wounded. The group has donated 27 computers thus far, 24 of them to Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Brown got the idea, reports The Associated Press, while “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.” The computers aren’t just being used to read e-mail. One soldier, who couldn't speak, was able to communicate by typing on the computer, and those who have eye watch movies on the laptops while holding the screens close to their faces.
Hey! The soldiers could continue serving their country by using the laptops to hunt jihadis like that housewife!
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