VIDEOCONFERENCE TECH NOW TIES ARMED FORCES TO FAMILIES
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
It’s another evidence of people caring enough for New Iraq that they actually do something worthwhile. While killers international try to disband the democracy, freedom enthusiasts keep the patience — working profitably in real time, real life.
So two men came up with this newest communication network to tie those in the field with their families and friends back home. Not the crippled networks of the past when it was hoped to get through a minute or two of ungarbled sentences. This is state-of-the-art. It works. It’s clear and ready.
A soldier in New Iraq can talk with his wife about that day’s teacher-parent conference. He can chat with his daughter about her math lesson. He can wish his son a happy birthday, singing the ditty over the phone: "Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you. . ."
According to Terri Lukach of American Forces Press Service, Freedom Calls Foundation has been formed. "With the help of individual contributions and corporate sponsors, the foundation provides free, state-of-the-art videoconferencing technology to link U.S. service personnel with their families back home.
"Unlike the censored mail of World War II, or the few minutes of barely audible telephone conversation that characterized communication during the Vietnam conflict, videoconferencing allows today’s military men and women to attend and participate in birthdays, graduations, weddings and other milestone family events.
"Via the magic of video, they can join their spouse at a parent-teacher conference, speak to an insurance agent or financial adviser, or participate in any number of other events important to the life of the family."
Who are the contributing geniuses behind all this wonder? First, there’s Edward Bukstel, a corporate executive with a satellite services provider. Next, there’s John B. Harlow II, an attorney, banker and Internet service provider.
These two patriotic, caring gentlemen stepped forward to meet the challenge. They came up with the network. They put in place the Freedom Calls Foundation and then made it available to the US Army.
Do Americans care enough? Do Americans follow through daily with the proverbial "American way" of giving? Yes, they do. They come to the aid. They step up. They share.
"Each Freedom Calls Foundation facility costs about $300,000 to establish and another $300,000 annually to maintain. ‘We are always begging for resources,’ Harlow said. ‘Donations come from individuals, from corporations, and from a variety of other sources.’
"For example, he said, a group of office workers whose employee fund was being dissolved voted to donate the entire amount to the Freedom Calls Foundation to help connect families to their servicemembers in Iraq.
"’In upstate New York,’ Harlow said, ‘a couple of high school girls started selling magnetic car ribbons and are now raising about $1,000 a month for the troops.’"
I think back to Europe at the outset of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Recall the stubbornness of those so-called national leaders? Recall President Bush begging liberty nations to get with the freedom spread? Remember how they balked, not all of them, thank God? But too many of them did, to their shame.
Recall when Iraqis themselves, after Saddam Hussein was deposed, asked the US-led Coalition why more liberty nations were not coming to assist with their newly found democracy? Do you remember all that angst? It was fact.
Further, the American liberal mainstream media balked, lagged, hampered and did everything but diss the President nightly on the news. In reality, there were times when the news media did just that, regrettably.
I wondered how the press expected our nation to survive with freedoms intact when the press was undermining the President who was seeking to undo killers international. Why would not a free press defend its own freedoms by standing alongside a President who sought to defend America’s shores as well as liberate others abroad? It was crazy and selfish. Nevertheless, it happened.
However, the Red States stood alongside the President. A number of national leaders of free countries entered the Coalition. And still to this day there are those who work night and day for the cause of New Iraq’s future.
Therefore, when these two gentlemen create this communications marvel, it’s simply another example of real people in real life doing what’s really necessary for the freedom cause.
Now we have the hook up that brings those in far countries into their American homes and communities.
"Twenty-five members of the 706th Transportation Company were not only able to cheer on Team USA in the first of three World Cup hockey exhibition games in Columbus, Ohio, but also addressed the capacity crowd of 18,000 over the arena’s Jumbotron screen. After the game, the soldiers spent about 20 minutes each visiting with their own family members.
"Army Staff Sgts. Shadow Evans and Richard Everton were wed in a long-distance video ceremony that brought together the bride in Iraq with the groom in Durango, Colo.
"And two fathers, in simultaneous videoconferencing sessions over the Freedom Calls network in Iraq, were able to attend high school graduation ceremonies for their daughters in separate cities in California."
A huge thanks to all who stay the course, who believe in freedom shared, and who support the President in his daily endeavors to liberate the oppressed.
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It’s another evidence of people caring enough for New Iraq that they actually do something worthwhile. While killers international try to disband the democracy, freedom enthusiasts keep the patience — working profitably in real time, real life.
So two men came up with this newest communication network to tie those in the field with their families and friends back home. Not the crippled networks of the past when it was hoped to get through a minute or two of ungarbled sentences. This is state-of-the-art. It works. It’s clear and ready.
A soldier in New Iraq can talk with his wife about that day’s teacher-parent conference. He can chat with his daughter about her math lesson. He can wish his son a happy birthday, singing the ditty over the phone: "Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you. . ."
According to Terri Lukach of American Forces Press Service, Freedom Calls Foundation has been formed. "With the help of individual contributions and corporate sponsors, the foundation provides free, state-of-the-art videoconferencing technology to link U.S. service personnel with their families back home.
"Unlike the censored mail of World War II, or the few minutes of barely audible telephone conversation that characterized communication during the Vietnam conflict, videoconferencing allows today’s military men and women to attend and participate in birthdays, graduations, weddings and other milestone family events.
"Via the magic of video, they can join their spouse at a parent-teacher conference, speak to an insurance agent or financial adviser, or participate in any number of other events important to the life of the family."
Who are the contributing geniuses behind all this wonder? First, there’s Edward Bukstel, a corporate executive with a satellite services provider. Next, there’s John B. Harlow II, an attorney, banker and Internet service provider.
These two patriotic, caring gentlemen stepped forward to meet the challenge. They came up with the network. They put in place the Freedom Calls Foundation and then made it available to the US Army.
Do Americans care enough? Do Americans follow through daily with the proverbial "American way" of giving? Yes, they do. They come to the aid. They step up. They share.
"Each Freedom Calls Foundation facility costs about $300,000 to establish and another $300,000 annually to maintain. ‘We are always begging for resources,’ Harlow said. ‘Donations come from individuals, from corporations, and from a variety of other sources.’
"For example, he said, a group of office workers whose employee fund was being dissolved voted to donate the entire amount to the Freedom Calls Foundation to help connect families to their servicemembers in Iraq.
"’In upstate New York,’ Harlow said, ‘a couple of high school girls started selling magnetic car ribbons and are now raising about $1,000 a month for the troops.’"
I think back to Europe at the outset of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Recall the stubbornness of those so-called national leaders? Recall President Bush begging liberty nations to get with the freedom spread? Remember how they balked, not all of them, thank God? But too many of them did, to their shame.
Recall when Iraqis themselves, after Saddam Hussein was deposed, asked the US-led Coalition why more liberty nations were not coming to assist with their newly found democracy? Do you remember all that angst? It was fact.
Further, the American liberal mainstream media balked, lagged, hampered and did everything but diss the President nightly on the news. In reality, there were times when the news media did just that, regrettably.
I wondered how the press expected our nation to survive with freedoms intact when the press was undermining the President who was seeking to undo killers international. Why would not a free press defend its own freedoms by standing alongside a President who sought to defend America’s shores as well as liberate others abroad? It was crazy and selfish. Nevertheless, it happened.
However, the Red States stood alongside the President. A number of national leaders of free countries entered the Coalition. And still to this day there are those who work night and day for the cause of New Iraq’s future.
Therefore, when these two gentlemen create this communications marvel, it’s simply another example of real people in real life doing what’s really necessary for the freedom cause.
Now we have the hook up that brings those in far countries into their American homes and communities.
"Twenty-five members of the 706th Transportation Company were not only able to cheer on Team USA in the first of three World Cup hockey exhibition games in Columbus, Ohio, but also addressed the capacity crowd of 18,000 over the arena’s Jumbotron screen. After the game, the soldiers spent about 20 minutes each visiting with their own family members.
"Army Staff Sgts. Shadow Evans and Richard Everton were wed in a long-distance video ceremony that brought together the bride in Iraq with the groom in Durango, Colo.
"And two fathers, in simultaneous videoconferencing sessions over the Freedom Calls network in Iraq, were able to attend high school graduation ceremonies for their daughters in separate cities in California."
A huge thanks to all who stay the course, who believe in freedom shared, and who support the President in his daily endeavors to liberate the oppressed.
For more: http://conservativeposts.us/ <http://conservativeposts.us/>
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