Support Our Nation's Defenders (volunteers needed -- laptops appreciated)

PFCU Foundation ^ | March 9, 2005 | PFCU Foundation

[Former Military Chick]

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES
Share Your Expertise:

*Financial Counseling
How to:
- Budget
- Purchase a Car
- Purchase a Home
- Reduce Credit Card Debt
- Save for Retirement

*Military Pay and Benefits
*Income Tax Preparation

To learn more about how you can volunteer your expertise, Contact us.

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“Laptops For Our Soldiers”

Picture this. Your spouse, your son or your daughter is recovering from wounds incurred in Iraq. Upon getting the news, you drop everything you’re doing and leave your job or your school and your family and friends to attend to your loved one.

You’re at a military base hospital hundreds or thousands of miles from home for weeks and months on end. Can you telecommute? Can you e-mail home? Can your loved one e-mail their buddies in Iraq?

Probably not if you’re staying at a Fisher House (and most families do, along with outpatient wounded).

The typical set up at Fisher Houses is one computer with a dial-up modem in the foyer. All seven families in the house vie for usage.

That’s why we’re starting a fund-raising drive for at least $80,000 to provide 44 laptops and six desktop computers, many with voice recognition software, and all with high-speed connections.

The Pentagon Federal Credit Union is so committed to this effort that we will start the fundraising drive with a challenge grant of $50,000.

HELP MAKE A CONNECTION NOW!

[Former Military Chick]

I suppost it is time for us to get a new laptop maybe I can donate this one ... or give the money for the new one to help keep our troops in touch with loved ones and friends.

[Former Military Chick]

Another way to help our troops.

PING

[StarCMC]

FYI Ping and bttt

[Former Military Chick]

StarCMC, thanks for helping to aid this important cause.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Support Our Nation's Defenders
(volunteers needed -- laptops appreciated)
PING

[fatima]

68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub,Bump.

[armymarinemom]

Bump. Now this is troop support.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[Soaring Feather]

bump!

[HRoarke]

Thanks for the ping:

"Message Sent

Sent to:

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roderick.mitchell@pentagonfoundation.org
marylynn.stevens@pentagonfoundation.org"

I have some financial expertise and emailed to volunteer.

[M0sby]

Volunteer BTTT...

[G.Mason]

Bump

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!!

[Former Military Chick]

Groovy and thank you kindly for the bump.

[SE Mom]

Thanks for this Tonk- great idea.

[mcshot]

Worthy cause bump.

mc

[JLO]

Bump!

[KeyLargo]

Good article here:

The blogs of war
Troops offer ‘the truth’ via Web journals

Soldiers are trying to make sure their version of the truth from Iraq gets out.Even though for many, that truth doesn’t include revealing their identities, their online diaries are becoming an increasingly popular way for anyone with an Internet connection to “listen in” on the war zone....

http://www.armytimes.com/story.php?f=0-ARMYPAPER-674310.php