How timely, reading your message about "Medal of Honor" on Memorial Day--and some people are just deep down wonderful.
Misha Cindy wrote:
Let me discuss things in reverse order. smileThe new features of bookshare have me thoroughly confused. I suppose the proper place for what I'm about to share with you belongs on the new blog, but I don't know how to sign up for it or post to it; besides, I don't think I want to sign up for it; already I spend too much time reading and occasionally answering list posts. I suppose, however, that if people posted on the blog, there would be fewer OT posts on the email lists, and so less to read--unless one subscribed to the blog--grin.I have to share this with all of you. Some people are *so* nice and go the extra mile.I am proofreading Medal of Honor: Portraits of Valor Beyond the Call of Duty.The text is interesting, and a pleasure to read. However, there are a lot of photographs, both snapshots of the heroes when they were younger and in the service, and full-page photographs of the Medal-of-Honor winners taken for the book. The photographer of the latter is Nick Del Calzo;(he has a web page and it lists places where his photographs can be seen and also books for which he has supplied photographs.I have been doing my best to describe for you readers the photographs. In some cases I recognize or can guess at the location in which the subject was photographed. However, yesterday I was stumped. The statue has too many figures on it for me to attempt to describe it, and I could not find it by googling, so I took a chance and wrote to Mr. Del Calzo, identifying myself as a volunteer for bookshare.org and asking him if he would please be kind enough to identify the monument for me. When I opened my email l today, there was his reply. He had taken the trouble to write to the subject himself,Lieutenant Harold Fritz, to ask him, and Lt. Fritz. replied to him, and the answer was forwarded to me. Mr. DelCalZo also said that he appreciated the work we volunteers do (I had explained that volunteers scan and proofread print books to add to the bookshare collection so that blind and others with disabilities who can't read books the way sighted people can can have access to them)Now, if you download and read Medal of Honor (when I finally finish proofing it), you'll see that the man on p. 100 is standing in front ofthe 100-year old-soldiers and sailors monument located in the Peoria County Courthouse square,Peoria, Illinois. It represents/honors those Peoria area men and women who served in the civil war.I suspected that the statue was somewhere in Illinois, since that's where Lt. Fritz is living, but I gave up searching for war memorials in Illinois. If you live in Peoria, you can visit it. Otherwise, perhaps you can find a photo online and can find someone who is sighted to describe it to you.Describing something orally is a alot easier than writing the description; I do not do that well, partly because I do not have the patience to read over and correct the grammatical structure of what I have writen.If anyone is willing to read my descriptions and edit/rewrite them, when the book is in the collection, I'll send the pages and will ask Carrie to give you the $2.50 credit for proofreading. Since they are not copyrighted, there should be no problem.Cindy CindyWish List (i.e., books wanted added to the collection) and books-being-scanned list available at sites belowWish List: https://wiki.benetech.org/display/BSO/Bookshare+Wish+ListBooks Being Scanned List: https://wiki.benetech.org/display/BSO/Books+Being+Scanned+List
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