Some Links: www.tjsjourney.com pages.teamintraining.org www.teamintraining.org www.leukemia.org www.givelife.org www.organdonor.gov www.marrow.org Please send a letter in support of a childhood cancer stamp to: Citizens Stamp Advisory Committee c/o Stamp Development US Postal Service 475 L'Enfant Plaza, SW, Room 5670 Washington, DC 20260-2437 SUBJECT: National Childhood Cancer Awarness Month Please help us honor our children by participating in a writing campaign to attempt to get a stamp approved for childhood cancer. Currently, there are stamps for breast and prostate cancer, diabetes, organ donation and hospice. Each year, the citizen's stamp advisory committee reviews stamp subjects that are submitted by the public. They have thousands that are suggested. They will only consider "events and themes of widespread national appeal and significance". It is quite possible that they do not know the widespread national significance of childhood cancer. We are asking each of you - family members of children with cancer, childhood cancer patients, survivors, friends and care-givers to help us tell them that childhood cancer is the number one disease killer of children in our country, and that the number of kids being diagnosed with cancer is increasing. Let us tell them that childhood cancer is significant! Cancer cuts short the lives of more children under the age of 19 than any other disease, 1 child out of 5 who is diagnosed with cancer dies, 3 out of 5 children suffer from ...
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