“These guys will try anything.”
Try as I might, I still can’t get some pics to show up in Internet Explorer. This story had to be told with pics, so I decided to post it over at the old GunnNutt site. Do yourself (and me) a favor and start using Firefox!
The title says it all – taken from a quote in the August 23rd edition of San Luis Obispo Tribune about an event organized by OperationComfort.org and ampsurf.com, and worked by volunteer/supporter/friend of milblogs/very nice lady – Donna, Los Osos. She was a volunteer for the event and kindly sent me more info about the week long camp and the terrific people involved.
Please check out Donna’s most excellent adventure!
August 26th, 2006 at 11:29 pm
Do you want us to comment on both sides?
August 26th, 2006 at 11:34 pm
Yes! Comments everywhere!!! HAHAHAHAHA!
Actually, I’d rather hear from you guys on this site. It’s easier for me to see them. But you can leave them where ever you want.
August 27th, 2006 at 12:03 am
WOW! I “made the trip” over to Donna’s site to read about this. Left a comment there but hope everyone will not only go there and read it but pass it along to EVERYONE they know. Hey, if people can keep forwarding those #*&@ emails promising 500 extra years of life and billions of dollars if you forward then they CAN tell everyone about stories like this!
August 27th, 2006 at 7:28 am
Hey GN, this is an awesome post! (with pic) These guys just completely amaze me.
August 27th, 2006 at 7:38 am
Hey, I’m back cause I just went to the old site. Donna you are AWESOME!! Not as much as our guys, but you helped do a really terrific thing here:) I’m sure none of you will ever forget this trip or your time together. The things these young folks do are absolutely inspiring and kudos to you for getting involved and for sharing with us. THANK YOU.
August 27th, 2006 at 10:34 am
Thanks Gunnutt. Now I’m crying again! But really, it is so wonderful…there can’t be enough said about the courage of these guys. They are amazing! May their “stoke” last forever!
Semper gratus,
Donna
August 28th, 2006 at 12:53 am
All involved are true inspirations.
August 28th, 2006 at 8:21 am
It may be a filename problem. IE illegally “translates” some characters in filenames, so the filename doesn’t match anymore. Try taking all spaces, parens, anything but underscores and alphanumerics out of filenames when you post images, and see how that works.
August 28th, 2006 at 9:41 am
Thanks Prof, but the problem appears to be with combining images with other HTML tags, like tables and blockquotes. WordPress (or at least in this template) adds paragraph tags that I don’t want and I can’t get rid of them, then it squalks about improper tags!?!
August 28th, 2006 at 9:42 am
I’m glad you all like Donna’s post! I think it’s great that one of milblogs best supporters got to participate and report on this wonderful event!
August 28th, 2006 at 5:45 pm
GN, This is just awesome! What a bunch of heroes!
August 30th, 2006 at 12:30 am
When one thinks of all the horrible things that can happen to someone, many think if somehow if they acquired similar injuries, it would be all over for them. These guys are leaders who demonstrate that this is not true. Every person should find hope in this and be hugely greatful for this hope. Our troops never quit being rolemodels.
August 30th, 2006 at 8:58 am
Yeah, wordpress includes a textile engine that replaces carriage returns with break or paragraph tags, but that wouldn’t affect whether images show or not, just the placement, or white space above and below. Odds are it’s not a wordpress problem, but a problem with your theme, since it sounds like an IE/CSS glitch.
August 31st, 2006 at 6:57 am
I do not have the words as to how cool this is for the guys!
July 17th, 2008 at 1:28 pm
Hey all:
Please note that we did this again in 2007 and are doing it this year August 14th-18th, 2008. If you would like to come out and Volunteer we would love to have you. Also if you are a veteran and would like to learn to surf please contact us to participate. Just go to the website http://www.ampsurf.com and click on Operation Restoration III.
Thanks,
Dana Cummings
Executive Director
Association of Amputee Surfers (AmpSurf)