connecting families with troops live via the internet showing the troops that “america cares”
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Connecting families with troops live via the Internet
Showing the troops that Showing the troops that “America Cares”“America Cares”
Who is America Cares?
• Our purpose: Facilitate live communication between Americans and loved ones serving in harms way abroad. This provides a means for Americans to show we care about our troops.
• We ran many of the videoconferencing events with the troops and families you read about in the press recently.
• http://www.OperationAmericaCares.org
Who is InfraSupport?• InfraSupport builds and manages computer networks.
• We are proud to provide the IT expertise required to make videoconference meetings happen.
• Our extremely unglamorous firewall system forms the base for all the excitement.
• Think of InfraSupport as the plumbing company, building the pipes to feed data to the faucets.
• http://www.InfraSupportEtc.com
InfraSupportCORPORATION
We bring families and loved ones serving our country overseas together
And we need your help
• We have an opportunity to build one or more videoconference sites in Iraq.
• You have an opportunity to support our troops in a tangible way.
• It costs roughly $84,000 per year per site in Iraq for equipment and bandwidth.
• With your help, we can make face to face family meetings almost as common as phone calls.
Here are a few highlights of what we’ve done so far…
At the St. Paul Chamber of Commerce on Memorial Day 2005
…with the St. Paul Chamber’s own Larry “High-Tech” Dowell
St. Paul Mayor Randy Kelly
Tony Oliva
And families
The press was keenly interested that day
So were the politicians (hi Mike!)
Twins vs. Tampa Bay July 3, 2005
Touch ‘em all, John Gordon!
Happy Birthday, son, from Iraq!
Thank you, Minnesota Twins . . .
. . . For the suite
We made people around the world happy that day.
Independence Day with theSaint Paul Saints
A great day for baseball at Midway Stadium
And in Iraq
Pitching Coach Randy “Mayor” Kelly offers some pointers for that first pitch
A bit of network improvisation . . .
So LCpl. Kiehl could talk to his expecting wife
Karen Lungstrom sings the National Anthem
And let’s play ball!
L. Cpl. Kiehl’s son was born on Labor Day, 2005. He was in the delivery room.
Mom, Dad, and family are all doing fine.
Minnesota Vikings Sept. 11
Bringing more families together
Marines in Iraq on the scoreboard at Halftime
Thanks for the suite, Minnesota Vikings!
The Cheerleaders were great too!
Minnesota Gophers Sept. 17
Kickoff
Cheerleaders supporting our troops
Thanks, Coach!
We look forward to when our people come
home
But until that time . . .
We have the technology . . .
. . . To stay in touch
And with your help, we can do more.
Thank you for your support
From all of us
One last commercial…
• Operation America Cares appreciates your tax deductible donations.
• And America Cares’ sponsors and partners appreciate your business.