Maine Support Our Troops Plate
Maine State Representative, Don Pilon of Saco, Maine has initiated a pursuit to create a yellow ribbon plate available for purchase for any Mainer. To get a plate approved for sale, you must collect 2000 signatures and raise $40,000 to pay for the purchase of the processing of the first 2000 plates. This is cool. You can read more about it here.
They have the signatures, and now they are raising the money. A woman called into the radio station that is helping this along, to challenge military families in Maine to go to this site and donate toward a total of $1000 of the $40,000 today.
$10 of every plate sold, (purchase cost of $20,) will go into a trust fund to help families of all military in the state of Maine. I will be managed by the Maine National Guard but is available to all Maine military who need financial assistance due to their sacrifice of military service.
If you don’t live in Maine, you should try something like this in your state!