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Our MySpace page, and effort, were mentioned on TogiNet Radio:
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Music
*Past Songs Displayed*
Skillet: "Yours to Hold" (Click CD cover to read More)
Mark Schultz: "Letters from War" (Click CD cover to read More)
Stephen Cochran: "When a Hero Falls" Promoting his music, after facing intense combat overseas, and incredible sacrifice through injury, is the least we can do for this brave American.
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Books
CLICKcover to read More. (Read excerpt from this book!) "Homefront": a Novel written by our friend Kristen Tsetsi "As the spouse of a soldier who spent a year in Iraq, I must say that Kristen caught the feelings perfectly and I'm amazed that you can translate feelings of that magnitude into words." --Christine, Army Wife
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CLICKcover to read More. 23 y/o Iraq Combat Veteran
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"Chasing Ghosts" was written by Paul Rieckhoff, Founder and Executive Director of the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA).
www.iava.org
After MANY email exchanges with their Founders/CEO, this MySpace group has teamed up with SocialVibe to offer a truly unique, innovative, creative, and cutting-edge way for EVERYDAY Americans to raise money ($$$$$$$) for Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA), without spending a dime of your own money. All you have to do is create a profile!
***Update:(25Jan2008):Merchandise will no longer be sold through a clickable-link on our MySpace page. If you would like a T-Shirt, or any other Cafepress.com product (Mugs/ Sweatshirts/Caps/etc.) , with our above LOGO on it, ALL requests can be accomodated through a brief personal message to us, via our MySpace site.
(Photos of Merchandise can be seen in our MySpace 'Pictures' section!)
*This group is not yet a Non-profit Organization. While we appreciate the generosity, absolutely no donations will be accepted. We will continue to utilize this MySpace site to help promote advocacy efforts, pursued by established Non-profit Organizations, by displaying their banners with utmost pride. We sincerely hope that you will consider directing your donations towards those other worthy causes displayed on this MySpace Site.
*This MySpace site was developed primarily to help facilitate the networking of United States' Veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan, current military personnel of all service branches, and their supporters. Our ultimate goal, however, is to build this effort, through increased national exposure, so that we can continue to effectively pursue advocacy efforts on behalf of United States' Veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan.
Through our MySpace site, we also hope to successfully link our general American population to the brave men and women who sacrifice so much on our behalf. Endless stories have been generated by those who have experienced the war efforts first hand. Because we strongly believe that it is not just our military at war, but, rather our entire country, we sincerely hope that the general American public will try their best to understand these experiences, and embrace them, regardless of political agenda or ideology.
Many Veteran's/Military organizations have been birthed as a direct result of the war efforts. While there is no doubt that they have done some great things for veterans, and current military personnel, they oftentimes compete, rather than complement one another. For that reason, we will continue to utilize our MySpace page, as a solid platform of support, in order to unite these various resources, and help direct traffic towards their worthy causes, as well.
While we continue to build this effort up to the point where we can have a formidable impact on veterans, and the issues they currently face, we will continue to proudly display the banners of the IAVA (Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America) on this MySpace site.
(Please refer to our blog for past updates on our progress, as well as, any future updates)
USVIA Merchandise is NOW Available @ www.cafepress.com/usvia ///USVIA Global Map Network /// /// USVIA Store/// ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________
*High-Quality/ Unique* USVIA T-shirt GiveAway! Begins: August 1, 2007 Ends: August 15, 2007 (Now Complete!) MUST be able to provide size of T-shirt, color preference, and shipping address upon completion of Drawing. 1) Submit Your MySpace URL to us, via MySpace. (EX: http://www.myspace.com/XXXXXXXXX) *This URL will be used for the Drawing*
2) ADD us to your Top Friends list.
Random Drawing for any Colored T-Shirt found in our slideshow below. ANYONE can Participate.
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The United States' Veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan is a newly formed MySpace group that emerged in direct response to what we perceive as an escalating need, and desire, to demonstrate our continual support of all military personnel at home, and currently deployed overseas.
While this group was established as a direct result of the ongoing collaboration amongst a small handful of Army Veterans, we believe that our actions should display a unified voice of support that transcends any barriers emplaced by the stigmas associated with each various branch of service.
We will remain politically neutral in regards to various stances concerning the approval, or disapproval, of the war efforts. While we are aware that these various stances do, in fact, exist, we will not allow this page to become a platform for these debates, irregardless of how subtle in nature they are. Instead, our focus is founded on providing a public forum by which past, and present, veterans can congregate in order to demonstrate a unifying factor of support for those who have been, and are currently, in harm's way.
If harnessed correctly, we believe that online communities, such as MySpace, provide an incredible avenue for rallying, and maintaining, support of these brave men and women.
This group is not associated, in any way, beyond monetary contributions given from it's current members already, with the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW), or the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA). We will, however, display their banners on our MySpace site with upmost pride.
While we may be members of several organizations simultaneously, we do believe that this effort can effectively harness the potential of MySpace, as a primary driving force of expressions of support, in a way that complements those previously mentioned organizations.
At no time will monetary contributions/donations be solicited.
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