A veteran legacy-preservation initiative.
Every veteran deserves the chance to leave their story in their own words.
Words for My Warriors should not be introduced to funders as “an AI writing product.” It should be introduced as a veteran legacy-preservation initiative that uses technology to help veterans tell, organize, preserve, and pass down their stories in their own words.
— WMW Funding & Partnership Roadmap, August 2026
Free to every veteran and family. Sustained by foundations, facilities and sponsors — never the veteran.
The problem.
In the roadmap’s own words: thousands of veterans carry stories their children and grandchildren have never heard. Some will never sit down and write them. Some cannot comfortably type them. Some do not know where to begin.
The country has a place to keep such accounts: the Library of Congress Veterans History Project preserves firsthand veteran recollections, memoirs, photographs and letters. What no archive can do is sit beside a veteran through the telling.
That is where it stops. Hands shake, sight fails, a keyboard is a wall, and the usual way to preserve a life is to hand it to a stranger with a recorder.
What it is.
The doctrine, in the room verbatim:
Words for My Warriors does not create a veteran’s story. It preserves the veteran’s story.
The veteran supplies the memories, experiences, opinions, humor, pain, pride, family history, service history, and meaning.
Words for My Warriors listens, asks, organizes, formats, and helps turn those words into a manuscript.
If the veteran speaks it, Words for My Warriors may help shape it.
If the veteran does not provide it, Words for My Warriors does not invent it.
The veteran decides what belongs in the book, how it should sound, what should remain private, and what they want to leave behind.
The veteran owns the story. Words for My Warriors simply helps hold the pen.
Who it serves.
Veterans in wheelchairs. Veterans who have lost a limb. Veterans whose eyes were injured. Older veterans. Women veterans. Every branch, every era, every background, on a phone, a headset, a tablet or a desktop. A veteran is not only American, so the room asks which service and country rather than guessing. It serves the families who will hold the book, and the homes and organizations that bring it to the people in their care.
How it works.
Built, testing · The microphone (talk to Rye)
Coming · The Photograph Door
Coming · Other languages
The room opens at its own door, on any phone, tablet or computer the veteran already has. They tell it — typing, or with their own device’s dictation — and the room reads it back. No blank page. There are two ways in: Open your own free seat, at the door with no card and no fee, or I was given a code, from a facility, a post or a sponsor. Either way, it is the same room and the same seal. In a browser that can listen, they can also press the microphone and speak; what it heard is read back before anything is sent, and it turns itself off. It is new, and not yet tested on every device. Every passage is read back and stays unfinished until they say it is right, and a visit with no writing still counts. They are never pushed to write.
Music is one tap away, on their own device. Today the room works in English; a call for help is heard in the veteran’s own language and answered with the crisis line first, and other languages are coming. The finished book is theirs to shape — titled, in their own words — or kept plain. Coming in Phase 2: the photograph door, where photographs go in beside the words, captioned in their own dictation. It is not part of the room today, and it has not yet been tested.
The standard it is built to.
Coming · The Photograph Door
How we build. Not a claim about outcomes.
- Every promise has a file behind it, and, where it can be code, a gate. Eleven promises with nothing behind them were struck from this site this pass.
- The central promise runs as code, not prose: a line the veteran never said is refused by name, the read-back is kept as evidence, and the finished book carries a table showing where each sentence came from.
- A judge who built nothing grades the room against a written plan before release. No green is typed: each is a bare check.
- Real scenarios, graded cold — spoken-only, screen-reader, a visit with no writing, a helper and veteran with no shared language, a distress line in the first message by country and in another language, the invention test. (The photograph door is Phase 2: coming, and not yet tested.)
Where it stands. This site and its checks pass. The room’s gates, shelf and verified crisis lines are green on the house’s own test road. Before the door opens, the room runs its live simulations and a judge who built nothing re-judges it; if any cannot pass, the door stays closed. No testimonials: there are no customers yet.
Safety and dignity.
Care comes first, above every other rule. Each line below comes from that service’s own official page, 2026-09-08.
- United States — Veterans Crisis Line: dial 988, then press 1 · text 838255
- United Kingdom — Combat Stress: 0800 138 1619
- Canada — VAC Assistance Service: 1-800-268-7708
- Australia — Open Arms: 1800 011 046
- New Zealand — 1737, call or text
- Anywhere else — the room asks where the veteran is and gives that country’s line; where none is verified, the emergency number, said plainly. It never invents a number.
We can listen. We cannot practice.
The boundary. A companion and a storytelling system, not a doctor, therapist, lawyer or adviser. It does not diagnose or advise; it names the qualified person and stays. The boundary never delays a crisis line.
Privacy. The room runs on Loving My Words’ own server. Each veteran’s story is sealed under their own code, designed so that no staff member, sponsor or family member can open it without one of the veteran’s codes; the outside security review of that design is still to come. Data stays in Words for My Warriors’ custody, with third-party processing limited to the services required for language processing (and, once speaking to Rye by voice is built, speech), subject to verified provider retention and privacy terms.
Ask, never assume. The room never says “Sir” or “Ma’am” unasked and assumes no rank, branch or gender. It asks how the veteran wishes to be addressed.
Sponsor a Warrior.
Every veteran comes in free, always. Sponsors and supporters carry what it costs to run a veteran’s seat.
- Who can sponsor: family, a VFW or American Legion post, a foundation, a company, a church or community group, a veterans’ home, or one person.
- What a gift does: it covers the running cost of a veteran’s seat — the AI that listens and the server it runs on.
- How much: any amount. No fixed sum is required.
- What a sponsor never receives: the veteran’s story, name, words or manuscript. Who pays changes nothing about who owns the story.
- Your name: sponsors stay unnamed, unless you ask to be named.
To sponsor or partner, write to info@lovingmywords.com. To contribute directly, see Help Us Preserve Their Stories, below.
The cost model.
Free to every veteran and every family, now and always: no price, no card, no cart, no licence that expires. What it costs to run a veteran’s seat — the AI that listens and the server it runs on — is carried through Sponsor a Warrior, never by the veteran.
The roadmap keeps two budgets apart, and so do we: a program budget, the cost of serving veterans, and an organizational budget, the cost of building and operating. Grants that fund the first often cannot fund the second. Our paid rooms build the company; sponsors keep this one free.
The roadmap.
Three lanes at once: different organizations fund different things.
Mission funding.
What reaches veterans directly: access, story capture, accessibility tools, printed legacy books, on-site programs. “Help us give veterans the opportunity to preserve their stories at no cost to them.”
Partnership and sponsorship.
Not always money: pilot locations, devices, printing, archival expertise, introductions.
Working capital.
The organization itself: engineering, security and privacy, support, operations.
Its first plan: prepare the package, qualify a target book of twenty-five to forty organizations, write three outreach letters rather than one mass mailing, then secure the first pilot and its proof — a funding network, not one donor who pays for everything.
The house behind it. This room opens when its live simulations pass and the judge signs; the memoir companion, Writing Your Story, follows as a pass, not a rebuild. Two rooms are already through these gates: The Reader’s Verdict, live at trv.lovingmywords.com, and Ask LeAnn.
The ask.
Coming · The Photograph Door
A founding legacy pilot: fifty veterans served at no cost.
Large enough to be evidence, small enough to support personally: onboarding, the spoken pen where needed, photographs once the photograph door arrives in Phase 2, a family legacy output, an optional printed copy — with participation, completion and family response reported back.
- Sponsor a veteran’s story — one veteran, end to end, or a cohort of one hundred.
- The Pen Accessibility Fund — tablets, microphones, headphones and adaptive input for veterans who cannot type.
- A veterans’ home pilot — you bring the space and the families; we bring the system and the training.
- The Military Photo Legacy Project — scanning, archival guidance, printing and delivery.
Budgets are prepared per pilot and per cohort; the roadmap’s tiers are on request. Its own first ask is a conversation, not a proposal.
The founder.
Lei A. Benoit is an author and the founder of Loving My Words. A first manuscript, written fast, was called terrible; this house was built so a first attempt is never where a storyteller stops. Every one of the founder’s own manuscripts goes through these rooms.
They lived it. They earned it. Now there is a place to tell it — and my goal is that the veteran never has to spend a dime.
Contact.
Write to info@lovingmywords.com — a person reads every letter. Tell us the veterans you serve and what a pilot should prove.
Download the Backer’s Brief (PDF)
Loving My Words
PMB 1501 India St, PMB 103-11, San Diego, CA 92101
Not sure what to do here? Questions about this page.
Here are the short answers. Inside the room — at the door on this site — you can ask your companion any of these too: type it, or let your device’s own dictation type it for you, and the answer is read aloud to you.
What is this page for?
The whole case, for the foundations and funders who want more veterans remembered.
Where do veterans begin?
Sign Up — free, two things, four large steps.
Who do we write to?
info@lovingmywords.com. A person reads every letter and answers it.