Celebrities Supporting Our Military for the Holidays

Always nice when those in the entertainment industry, Hollywood, and celebrities understand that their peace and prosperity and ours is only made possible by the finest amongst us serving in our armed forces.

The WWE never fails to support the troops- especially this time of year:

Photos here. More videos (quite good).

Hat tip to Griper on Theodore’s World:

Thanks To Dan Lauria and Marine Corps the Movie “The Spirit” Will Show In Iraq and Kuwait

A top Hollywood star has decided to spend this Christmas taking a copy of the Christmas Day release “The Spirit” to U.S. soldiers in the Middle East.

Actor Dan Lauria, who starred on television’s “The Wonder Years,” and has been in movies including “Never Say Die” and “Independence Day,” told WND he doesn’t understand why more special efforts aren’t being made to provide soldiers relief from the intensity of fighting the war on terror.

“We have a number of films opening during the Christmas week,” he told WND, “and I just felt that, why don’t we open them for the men in harm’s way?”

“I don’t understand why every film is not sending one, at a least a copy over,” he said. “I understand we’re in a lot of trouble right now, especially the economy, but the war is page 20 in the newspaper. The nightly news hardly reports anything about what’s going on.”

The issue, he said, is that without the military’s work to protect the basic freedoms Americans enjoy, even the economy’s difficulties wouldn’t matter a great deal.

Lauria said he decided he wanted to do something for the soldiers.

“The USO said it was too late (to make arrangements), so I just went through the Marine Corps,” he said. “We have two different types of discs. I’ll see five different bases in the three days.”

“I just want to make sure that over the holidays, they’re not forgotten,” he said.

Lauria will be in both Iraq and Kuwait to screen the movie. Plans have been made to show it in Kuwait Christmas Eve and then move into Iraq Christmas Day.

A release to soldiers in combat zones at the same time a movie is released in the U.S. is rare, according to promoters.

But because of the “invaluable service that our troops give to this country, they above anyone deserve a special gift this holiday season and, while they can’t be with their loved ones, we can at least give them a touch of home to enjoy and a break from the rigors of fighting,” Lauria said.

Quite simply, the best military in the world:

Our Twelve Days of Christmas in Iraq

1- full resupply of TP
2- megafones
3- crappy humvees
4- portajohns
5- hours of sleep
6- rusty dumbells
7- months deployment
8- IPs(iraqi police) dancing
9- sentries standing
10- hours posting
11- bags of trash
12- freakin’ flies!