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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