Teen uses Xoom to create digital monument for fallen soldiers

alby4ever

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Touching story involving creative use of a particular tablet (guess which one).

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Teen makes digital record of Arlington graves
Ricky Gilleland, a tech-savvy 11th-grader, has created the only digitized record of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery.

By Faye Fiore, Los Angeles Times
April 26, 2011, 8:08 p.m.
Reporting from Arlington, Va.— Rosemary Brown is standing over the grave of her son at Arlington National Cemetery when someone catches her eye. It's a boy in khaki shorts and muddy shoes, juggling a clunky camera and the Motorola Xoom he got for his 17th birthday five days earlier.

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Cool beans. To add something to this, he is using a wifi only Xoom, can tell because the colour is of a different shade.

Sent from my Xoom