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Operation Enduring Love

HomeMovie.Com Streams Family Video to Troops Overseas

Enables servicemembers in Iraq and Afghanistan to connect with family and loved ones at home

(Winthrop, WA.) - HomeMovie.Com announces the launch of Operation Enduring Love – a project designed to connect friends and family with their loved ones deployed overseas in Operation(s) Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom. This free offer, available through HomeMovie.Com’s Afiniti program, allows families and friends to send their love around the world in a way never before possible.

Understanding that many deployed troops in Iraq and Afghanistan have not seen their family and friends in weeks, months or even years, Operation Enduring Love allows friends and family to share up to 30 minutes of personal video footage through the HomeMovie.Com website. The families’ tapes will be converted into StreamingDVD – a technology that allows entire videos to be streamed and watched over the Internet in a password protected, DVD-style interface. The deployed serviceperson may then watch the video from a broadband capable computer as many times as they like for an entire year, taking them briefly away from the conflict and back home.

“The goal of this free gift is to enable those stationed half-way around the world to share in the special moments that would otherwise be missed from home,” said John Larsen, CEO and founder of HomeMovie.Com. “This heart-felt idea was first conceived last month when my wife heard a story about a new mother serving in Iraq and the heartbreak of missing out on the most precious moments of her child’s life,” said Larsen. “She immediately recognized the responsibility to leverage our Afiniti technology to help bring these families closer together.”

This outreach has already captured the imagination of many other people.who are showing their support for this worthy program. According to U.S. Senator Patty Murray- WA, “Operation Enduring Love is a unique way to help connect our servicemembers overseas with their families here at home. It’s a touching example of how technology can bridge the distance and help unite the many families that are sacrificing for our country.”

Operation Enduring Love is also bringing together a diverse set of public and private participation to help deliver this grass-roots initiative sponsored by HomeMovie.Com. Participants include NoaNet providing substantial bandwidth provision, NCTeleserve providing customer support services, and Okanogan County PUD providing critical infrastructure. CenturyTel, Winthrop’s local telecommunication’s provider, is serving an essential role by provisioning both bandwidth and critical infrastructure needed to make the operation a success..