 Last Year, on June 26th 2008, Move America Forward held our first ever 'Troopathon' titled “From the Front Lines.” This groundbreaking web event was made possible by our partnership with UStream.TV, a fledgling startup company that specializes in cutting edge video streaming technologies. In the year since “From the Front Lines,” the website has grown by over 500%!!  Move America Forward's FIRST "Troopathon" aired June 26th 2008 The idea was simple: bring together the nation’s biggest a-list celebrities, journalists, radio personalities, musicians, actors and pro-troop leaders for one purpose – to show our troops our support and appreciation by sending them the largest shipment of care packages from grateful citizens in history. We also wanted to show people the good and encouraging news coming out of Iraq, the news that our troops were standing at the precipice of victory, and we felt that message was not being picked up by the mass media which seemed to report only negative stories. On June 26th MAF aired our 8 hour broadcast, which was co-hosted by Melanie Morgan and internet super blogger Michelle Malkin. Together along with some in-studio guests like MAF Executive Director Catherine Moy and Sacramento talk radio legend Mark Williams, the team hosted 8 hours of uninterrupted interviews with all our webcam and telephone guests. promotional material that we used for "From the Front Lines"
We were joined by impressive and well known guests, all of whom agreed to participate out of their dedication to our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. From the talk radio world we had Rush Limbaugh, Dr. Laura Schlessinger, Mark Levin, and Laura Ingraham and of course star of radio and TV Sean Hannity. We also had smash hit columnist and author Ann Coulter.
Journalists and correspondents were in the mix too, most had traveled to Iraq and risked their lives to see and report on the great work our troops were doing. Oliver North and Chuck Holton joined us and shared their exciting reports from Iraq and Afghanistan. We also had milblogger Matt Sanchez who has also traveled across the Middle East in search of the true story behind the Iraq war. Not to be outdone, musicians like Five for Fightin’s John Ondrasik joined the effort to support our troops. We also had comedian Jackie Mason join us, along with a whole host of policy experts like Cliff May from Foundation for Defense of Democracies and bloggers from all across the country. We even talked directly to troops from Ft. Leaventworth, Kansas thanks to Hughes Sullivan and his team. archived on our UStream page! Just Click below! http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/515792 “From the Front Lines” was ambitious, bringing together people from all different walks of life together for one night and for one purpose. Together with our guests we raised an unprecedented amount of money for our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan as our way of saying “thank you” for all they have done for us. Altogether, “From the Front Lines” raised over$ 1.5 million dollars in a single night to send items like coffee, cookies, beef jerky, Gatorade, candy, hot chocolate, and jelly beans as well as personal comfort items like lip balm, deodorant, wet wipes and personal sized fans.  This historic number of care packages took several weeks to finish shipping off to Iraq and Afghanistan. After the numbers were tallied up, MAF had shipped over 10,000 care packages in a short period of time, thanks to the donations and to our wonderful staff of volunteers at our Sacramento headquarters.  This year Move America Forward hopes to support our troops still in Iraq and the troops now deploying to Afghanistan. We hope to bring back another star studded cast and make “Honor Their Service” even bigger and more beneficial for our brave troops. They are still fighting a tough war to protect our security here at home and with your help we will make an impact and show our troops how much we appreciate – and honor – their service! |
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