Hoist the Black Flag

I'll be on with Ace and Jeff at 4:04 Eastern. (Listen online at the link - channel one.)

We'll be talking about Jeff's Victorian Doll collection, Mrs Greyhawk's secret recipe for the soup she takes to the wounded troops, MRE coffee, and time permitting Jesse MacBeth.

May be taking calls too.

Valour-IT (Voice-Activated Laptops for Our Injured Troops)

Finally getting the recognition it deserves:

Working under the auspices of Soldiers' Angels, the charity has distributed nearly 500 laptops since August.

"Originally we wanted to set up laptop libraries," said Ms Bader. "But once we had given a laptop to a soldier, it was very hard to ask for it back."

So they have raised tens of thousands of dollars to buy the computers and software - recently clearing a waiting list of 30 wounded soldiers when they received an anonymous $19,500 donation.

"Around $750 provides so much healing to a wounded soldier," she explained. "It gets them involved, it helps them blog, it gets them into online courses."

It also helps with every day activities like paying bills, email, shopping, which is helpful if you're wheelchair bound, and many other thing that we take for granted.

Click below to make sure No Soldier Goes Unloved

(Via the Donovan)