ONE.

  In what may seem like an unlikely alliance, hard rock bank Drowning Pool, non-profit organization Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA), and 15-year-old YouTube video producer Lizzie Palmer are teaming up to encourage young people to support expanded health care for veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan."  This is the introduction to the "About Us" section on the newly-launched campaign, "This Is For The Soldiers."

On the site, there is an embeddable YouTube video (below), and a petition to Congressman Filner demanding sufficient health care for our returning American soldiers with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and other debilitating mental disorders as a result of their time serving our country.

Spread the video around, and sign the petition, at thisisforthesoldiers.org, to help our soldiers with what they need, for free.

TWO.

RECellular is sponsoring CellPhonesForSoldiers.com, where you can donate old, unused cell phones to soldiers for free.  And when we say free, we even mean postage-free.  If you are able to help the charity even more by applying your own postage, more money will go towards calling cards for the troops.

But if you can't afford the postage - no problem.  You can print a label here that will cover any shipping costs.  The charity will accept any unwanted cell phones.

You know you've got at least one lying around...we've got three that we're going to send this week!

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