November 26, 2004

The WSJ's Daniel Henninger has a wonderful column on the volunteer "bottoms-up" organizations here on the Home front to support our volunteer military that have come into being since the WOT began:War's Homefront Comes to Life Where It Belongs
He notes the creation of the clearing house website America Supports You where you can find a super list of groups from which to choose to give a donation or fund a Christmas treat for a deserving member of our military from buying them AT&T phone cards to Operation Air Conditioner heaters to Treats for Troops goodie bags.
(Our Blogfather Instapundit has an even better list here:Support our troops.)
The Dept. of Defense site announces that just last week, Hollywood stars actually did some nice things for our soldiers, instead of bashing President Bush or only giving lip service to "supporting the troops, but not the war."
Ellen Degeneres, joined by guest star Tom Hanks, devoted a whole TV show to our military and their families giving out $1.2 million in cruises to military families, airing messages from our troops deployed overseas and promoting the new America Supports You site and USO Care Packages.
America thanks you, Ellen, for your Victory spirit!
And at the USO site, we find that "The Sopranos" stars "Paulie" (Tony Sirico) and the head hood himself "Tony"(James Gondolfini) made appearances on a USO tour:



Even über-Liberal Paul Newman has put partisan politics to the side and paired Newman's Own with Fisher House Foundation to give monetary grants to miltary-support groups run by volunteers, as virtually all of them are.
I'd love to see Hollywood get behind our war effort in a big way, the way they did in WWII, but then, the film industry had Ronald Reagan heading that up!