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A Featured Lens on Operation Helmet 

Operation Helmet Saves Soldiers' Lives

The troops were sent into the Iraq and Afghanistan wars with helmets designed to protect against bullets but not against blast forces from IED's and other new types of combat dangers. Without the necessary replacement pads, our soldiers are exposed...

Join the Project Help Lensraiser to Support the Troops 

Project Help Lensraiser on Squidoo

Simply by making a lens on Squidoo, you can be helping protect the troops from traumatic brain injury and raise funds for Operation Helmet, a 100% volunteer, non-partisan, charitable organization. Operation Helmet currently provides needed helmet up...

A Featured Lens on Soldiers' Angels 

May No Soldier Go Unloved

Soldiers' Angels

The Soldiers' Angels was started by a self-described "ordinary mother" of an ordinary young man turned hero, Sgt. Brandon Varn. Brandon was deployed in Iraq and has since honorably completed his mission and has returned back to his proud an...

A Featured Lens on Dog Tags for Kids 

100% of Your Donation Delivers a Smile

Dog Tags for Kids

Serving in the military, and being deployed into harm's way is hard on every soldier. For those with families left behind, the separation can be even more traumatic, especially for the younger ones at home. So how do you thank the troops for their pa...

Another Featured Lens Benefitting Dog Tags for Kids 

Help for soldiers injured in service to our country

War as everyone knows can be very ugly. What's worse is that often our men and women return from service and have a difficult time adjusting, especially for those with injuries. While there are many organizations to support our troops, the Military W...

Featured Lenses on Helmets for Operation Helmet 

Helmets for Operation Helmet

Everyone needs a helmet! This lens is in support of Project Help on Squidoo. Make a Lens, Support the Troops, Raise Funds for Operation Helmet. 100% of the proceeds of this lens are donated to Operation Helmet.

More Helmets for Operation Helmet

More Helmets for Operation Helmet looks at two more areas where helmets come in handy protecting people--when Rock Climbing and when Bicycling. This lens is another lens created to benefit Operation Helmet as part of the Project Help Lensraiser. Op...

A Featured Lens on General Chuck Yeager 

General Chuck Yeager

I feel very fortunate that I've been able to spend some time with General Chuck Yeager. He was my guest at the Driftwood Lodge in SE Alaska, during the first week of September 2007, and then again in 2008. We chatted a bit, he ate my food, but I main...

A Featured Lens on the USS New York 

USS New York and September 11

What sets the USS New York apart? Its construction incorporates 7.5 tons of steel salvaged from the ruins of the World Trade Center which fell on September 11, 2001, the victim of terrorist attack. The steel was melted down and poured into a mold to...

A Featured Lens on the GI Bill 

The GI Bill - Education Benefits for Our Veterans

The GI Bill, which is officially known as Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, PL346, 58 Statutes at Large 284, afforded many US veterans the chance to further their education. This page is about this excellent benefit to our veterans.

A Featured Lens on the Gratitude Campaign 

The Gratitude Campaign - Thanking Those Who Are Serving & Others

The Gratitude Campaign is a way for people to say "thank you" quickly and easily to those who serve without even having to approach them. With a simple hand gesture in sign language, you can easily convey your "thanks" to those who...

A Featured Lens on Ways to Change the World with Squidoo 

Over 50 Ways You Can "Change The World" Using Squidoo!

I bet you didn't know that building a lens could change the world...well I'm here to tell you that it can! Think about it...if every Lensmaster on Squidoo created 1 lens per month and donated the funds to Charity that would add up to a heck of a lot...

A Featured Lens on The Parachute Regiment 

The Parachute Regiment

The Parachute Regiment is the Airborne Infantry element of the British Army. It is considered an elite unit by virtue of its stringent selection process, rigorous training programme and by the requirement of its role to operate with minimal or no sup...

Featured Lenses on Supporting the Troops with Greeting Cards and Gifts 

Support Our Troops with a Greeting Card

The mother & daughter team of D & D Art Studio is proud to be a participating artist in the Greeting Card Universe Support our Troops Greeting Card Program. Regardless of how you feel about the War in Iraq we as Americans need to support our...

Gifts for Soldiers

Sending gift packages to soldiers (GIs as I'm used to calling them) can be fun and rewarding not only for the soldier but for you as well. Here I'll explore what to send; how to send them; and have you share your experiences as well. I am an...

A Featured Lens on the Arlington Ladies 

The Arlington Ladies

For more than 35 years, the Arlington Ladies volunteers have represented veterans of the Army, Navy, Air Force and Coast Guard at every funeral at Arlington National Cemetery. Currently 195 Arlington Ladies, volunteer time to pay tribute to nation's...

A Featured Lens on My Good Deed 

My Good Deed - Change the World

How will you remember 9/11? Pledge your good deed for 9/11 in memory of those lost September 11, 2001 and turn 9/11 into a national day of service and compassion. My Good Deed is a non-profit public benefit corporation that was founded in 2002 to hon...

A Featured Lens on I'll Be Home for Christmas 

I'll Be Home for Christmas - Coping with the Holidays

The classic song, "I'll Be Home for Christmas," is a song about longing to be home with the ones that you love. Listening to this beautiful melody and lyrics is one way of being home for a bit even when you're far apart...if only in your dr...

A Featured Lens on the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League 

All About the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League

As depicted in the movie "A League of Their Own" The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League played baseball from 1943-1954. This was a fascinating time in history when women baseball was one of the top news stories. These women mad...

A Featured Lens on US State Greeting Postage Stamps 

US State Greeting Postage Stamps by D & D Art Studio

I love the idea of the State Quarters so I decided to put my artistic skills to work and design a set of "Greetings From" Postage Stamps on Zazzle for each of the 50 states. Click the Postage Stamps to order and see...

A Featured Lens on Custom Postage Stamps 

Custom Postage Stamps from Zazzle

I have complied a list of lenses with my Custom Postage Stamps from Zazzle. Dress up your mail with stamps for Christmas, Halloween, Birthdays, Baby Showers and more!

A Featured Lens on The Cleveland National Air Show 

The Cleveland National Air Show

Every year Cleveland hosts the Cleveland National Ai Show. I have been to about 15 of these air shows including the one in the 1980's when the Concorde was there. I have always loved seeing the Blue Angles, The Thunderbirds, War Planes and more. So h...

More Featured Lenses Benefiting Operation Helmet 

Whistleblowers

This lens tells the stories of usually ordinary people, often experts in their field, whose desire to "do the right thing" is stronger than their fear of potential threats to their own safety in the face of their actions. Whistleblowers often expose...

America's Most Popular Populist - Jim Hightower

America's icon of the populist movement shops "green", of couse! Nearly every Saturday morning, down at the farmer's market in South Austin, a man walks by my booth, always shouting a friendly greeting. Sometimes he stops for a quick chuckle about th...