We are a grassroots, non-profit organization of moms and dads and husbands and wives of soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. We are sisters and brothers, neighbors, uncles, aunts, and cousins. We are fiancés and children of those that serve on our behalf. We are American citizens that recognize the cost and the sacrifice that our heroes in uniform bear every day that they are away from home. Operation Soldier Assist seeks to encourage Washington to recognize our heroes in uniform.

We pledge to do all we can to get Uncle Sam to treat our brave warriors with the respect, pay scale and financial benefits that they deserve. We will promote these benefits with a national ad campaign using television, radio, magazines, direct mailings and any other means necessary to inform the public of our obligation. The costs of this campaign will be high, but the demands placed on our heroes on uniform are higher yet. They need your help.

Can you imagine the hardship this causes our soldiers and their families both emotionally and financially?

Some guys who are Vietnam vets are with us. They said that even in Vietnam, as difficult as it was there, you knew from the time you hit the ground to the time you returned, it was one year—whereas with this, it's really up in the air." —Jim Montgomery, Specialist E4 National Guard.

"What the military needed to do was to think out, how are we going to get enough people in the military to pursue it? They did not. And for them now to come in and simply trample on the legal rights and expectations of people who entered into contracts in good faith with the military, and served out those contracts completely, is simply unfair and we feel is inconsistent with the law." —Steven Goldberg, Attorney for Emilio Santiago

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