Okay, due to an extreme lack of participation, Castle Argghhh! didn't make it to the top 5 for the US Veteran category in the Milbloggies, thusly saving us from having to do any more non-participation in online popularity contests that we never win anyway.
Or so I thought.
Turns out that Fuzzybear Lioness *did* make the top 5 in her category, Military Supporter. At the moment of this posting, she's leading - but only by one vote.
So, click here - register if you have to, and vote for her. It'll make you feel all... Fuzzy inside. Yeah, that's it! And if you need a reason to vote for her - the category is Military Supporter, and...
Fuzzybear is the Heart of Project Valour-IT, whereby we give voice-activated laptops to wounded warriors whose injuries prevent them from using computers in the normal fashion. You know, like you are, right this second. And we just gave our 1000th, that's One Thousandth, laptop, this week. No, she didn't do it alone. Of course not. Many of us helped. But it was her dream and her drive that have helped two battalions, 2/3s of a Brigade's combat strength worth of profoundly wounded warriors stay connected in ways that all of you reading this post simply take for granted.
BUT SHE GOT IT STARTED AND MADE IT HAPPEN.
I know. I was there. I was one of the people she mercilessly browbeat to help her get it started. And I'm damn glad she did. So, go vote for her. Even if you aren't registered - go register for the sole purpose of casting your vote for her. Not because I told you to - but because there are simply damn few of us out here in our little community who have done as much as she has. Because it's easy to jump on a bandwagon. It's a lot harder to conceive of a bandwagon, then build it, so that people have something to jump on.
And that's what she did.
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