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Mom Donates Laptops to Wounded Soldiers

Saturday, March 24, 2007 6:42:24 PM
By MARY CLARE JALONICK

Laptops for the Wounded founder Laura Brown of Wyoming, right, and supporter Phil Drouin of East Hartford, Conn., left, pose with Col. Ladonna Howell, internal director of the Soldier Family Assistance Center at Walter Army Medical Center, Friday, March 23, 2007, in Washington. Brown and Drouin, donated on behalf of their organization 10 laptops for the wounded soldiers in rehabilitation at Walter Reed.  (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)WASHINGTON (AP) - Laura Brown, a mother with a son who fought in the Iraq war, is trying to improve conditions at Walter Reed Army Medical Center — one laptop computer at a time.

The 50-year-old from Cody, Wyo., was chatting on the Internet with the mother of a wounded soldier two years ago when the mother mentioned she had to print out her son's e-mails and take them to him at Walter Reed because there weren't enough laptop computers to go around.

Brown, whose own son had recently returned safely from the war, thought the solution to that problem seemed incredibly easy.


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