[bksvol-discuss] Re: Can a sighted volunteer take over validatating Medal of Honor
- From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:59:13 -0700 (PDT)
It sounds very interesting, and I'll be happy to do it when I finish my tome,
which I've been postponing for far too long. Depending upon whether anyone else
wants to do it--I know Marilyn is already committed to a lot of books and
Deborah is in the process of moving. I guess since you were validator and not
submitter you can't add a Hold or add anything to the Comments. Perhaps just
stick it up there and if it's still there when I'm ready I'll take it. Or
perhaps Shelley can reject i and put it up again with a note in the comments
that it needs a sighted validator. Devorah ha some sighted friends, too, who
are going to volunteer.
G.Cindy
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--- On Fri, 6/13/08, Judy s. <cherryjam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Judy s. <cherryjam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Can a sighted volunteer take over validatating
> Medal of Honor
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Friday, June 13, 2008, 11:49 AM
> Hi all,
>
> Shelley scanned "Medal of Honor: Portraits of Valour
> Beyond the Call Of Duty"
> for me. It's a coffee-table sized book full of
> photographs that barely fit on
> Shelley's scanner, so I'm amazed she was even able
> to scan it. smile.
>
> Unfortunately, I've got a major flare-up of a neck
> problem, so it may be weeks
> before I can spend more than a few minutes at a time even
> looking at a computer
> screen.
>
> I'd like to release this book back to step one if there
> is a sighted volunteer
> who will take it on. It'll need a sighted volunteer to
> figure out the partially
> missing words here and there and to determine where the
> photographs occurred
> (those seem to be pages filled with junk characters).
>
> I'll paste Shelly's notes, and the synopsis below.
>
> Judy s.
>
> Shelley's notes: Has not been edited. Many pages are
> flawless others seem to be
> missing some letters. The book was so large, any larger and
> I could not fit it
> on the scanner! May require some assistance. 328 pages.
>
> Synopsis:
>
> Nobody signs up to win the medal of honor. You earn it at
> the intersection of
> happenstance and hell, and you're there because
> that's what your country has
> asked of you. When the living heroes whose acts of bravery
> are chronicledhere
> try to explain their behavior, it's always in ordinary
> terms—there wereno other
> choices; they had a mission to complete; it seemed like the
> right thing to do at
> that moment; they were just trying to survive.
> "Somebody had to hold the road"
> is how World War II Lieutenant Audie Murphy chose to
> describe the most legendary
> one-man stand in Army history. But a hero's action is
> always extraordinary
> because it is so contrary to the basic human instincts of
> self-preservation and
> survival: A crewman aboard a bomber picks up, carries, and
> ejects a misfired
> phosphorous flare from the fuselage while he watches his
> hand burn away in the
> process. A soldier falls on a grenade to save his buddies,
> knowing that if he
> survives at all, it will be with a shattered body. A
> Japanese American whose
> family was moved into a California internment camp is a
> member of the Nisei
> 442nd Regimental Combat Team, the most decorated unit in
> World War II. Medal of
> Honor: Portraits of Valor Beyond the Call of Duty paints
> portraits of 138living
> or recently deceased men whose incredible bravery in World
> War II, Korea,and
> Vietnam is the embodiment of the very term hero. Their
> lives and their stories,
> collected on these pages, are as diverse as America itself:
> They're blackand
> white and Asian and Hispanic; sons of sharecroppers and
> brothers of soldiers.
> They're seventeen-year- old volunteers, career
> soldiers, military academy
> graduates. They're infantrymen and pilots, flamethrower
> men and medics. Today
> they will all tell you they are merely the caretakers of
> the medal for their
> comrades left behind on the battlefield. They are also
> living reminders of the
> cost of freedom, a price that we are periodically required
> to pay, suffering and
> courage, as we were so horribly reminded on September 11,
> 2001, and then later
> in Iraq.
>
> Title: Medal of Honor: PORTRAITS OF VALOR BEYOND THE CALL
> OF DUTY (2nd Ed.)
> Author: Peter Collier
>
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