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Words for My Warriors

Because time should not get the final word.

Built, testing · The microphone (talk to Rye)

Hear the welcome.

Welcome to Words for My Warriors

Welcome to Words for My Warriors.

Today marks 25 years since September 11, 2001.

For 25 years, we have said: Never forget.

Here at Loving My Words, we spent a lot of time thinking about how we could say thank you in a way that meant something.

We create stories. We help preserve words. So we built Words for My Warriors for veterans, service members, and first responders who have spent part of their lives answering the call for others.

There are stories that have never been told.

Some are about service. Some are about family. Some are funny, some are difficult, and some may have been carried quietly for years.

This is a place to tell them in your own way, in your own time.

Talk to Rye out loud, where your browser can listen: press the microphone, speak, and hear what it heard before anything is sent — the microphone turns itself off after. Or type, or let your device’s own dictation type for you. Rye’s words are read aloud to you. Talking out loud is new, and not yet tested on every phone and computer; adding photographs is coming. Bring your memories, the people, and the places. You can simply visit with your companion, or you can choose what you want preserved for your book.

You remain in control.

You do not need to buy anything, download anything, or sign up with anyone else. Words for My Warriors runs on Loving My Words’ own server.

Your seat is carried by people and organizations who believe in this work. Never by you.

We tested this room again and again, so that it keeps your story at the standard your story deserves.

Our payment is not from you.

Our reward is being able to bring Words for My Warriors to you and help you preserve the story you want to leave behind.

We listen, organize, and help shape what you give us into the story you want to leave behind.

Words for My Warriors is free from Loving My Words.

We are not asking anything from you.

This is simply our way of saying: Thank you for your service. Thank you for answering the call. And thank you for the stories you have already lived.

You lived the story.

It would be our honor to help you preserve it.

Begin My Story

A veteran who may never call themselves a writer can still leave their story behind. And when they are finished, their family has something that did not exist before:

An older Army veteran in his U.S. Army Veteran cap sits with his daughter at the table, the two of them reading his finished book together, its cover reading My Story, two of his old service photographs lying beside it. — Finished, and in their hands.

Their words.
Their memories.
Their warrior.
Still here.

Begin My Story

Not sure what to do here? Questions about this page.

Built, testing · The microphone (talk to Rye)

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 do I do now?

Listen to the welcome if you like, then press Begin My Story. It takes you to Sign Up, where two things are all you need.

Where was I last time?

Inside the room, your companion keeps the record. When you come back it says so — Good to see you again. Last time we were talking about … — and reads your own last words back to you, your words and not a summary of them, then offers to continue there, start somewhere else, look at a photograph, listen to music, or just talk.

Can I just talk?

Yes. Talking is a whole visit. Nothing has to become a book unless you say so.

What is this place?

A free companion for veterans that helps you tell your story in your own words, and keeps it. Why we created it says why.

Can you help me?

Inside the room, ask your companion anything — “What do I do now?” is a fine first question — and it answers in plain words. Or write to us: info@lovingmywords.com. A person reads every letter.

Can I use this with no hands at all?

On these pages, yes: after one touch on the first page (a click, a key, or someone typing begin for you), or no touch at all when the site is installed as an app on your computer or phone, say begin, then say where you want to go. Inside the room, your device’s own voice control can press the microphone for you (“click Press to talk”), and every question after that is said aloud and answered by voice; the microphone turns itself off after each turn. That is proven on the house’s own test browser and not yet on real devices — the Ways in page at the door says what has been tested.

Because time should not get the final word.

Welcome to Words for My Warriors

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Two Ways to Help

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Because time should not get the final word.

Welcome to Words for My Warriors

What a family is left with

Help Us Preserve Their Stories

Two Ways to Help

Support the Mission

Become a Sponsor or Partner