“Support Our Troops” license plate comes to Pa.
The “Support Our Troops” license plate is now available in Pennsylvania. The extra cost of the “Support Our Troops” specialty plate is $31, which will benefit Pennsylvania active-duty troops and their families. Pennsylvania residents can download the official “Support Our Troops” plate application and get more information on the Pennsylvania page of www.SupportOurTroops.org.
“If a neighbor leaves to go off to protect your family, morally what do you think you should do for his family, for her family?” said Martin Boire, chairman of “Support Our Troops.” “Buying this plate lets us civilians meet our obligation to those who are looking out for us.”
The “Support Our Troops” license plate has been approved by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation. But before the Bureau of Motor Vehicles will manufacture the plates, the organization, which sponsored the plate, must assemble an initial group of 200 applications using the form provided by the state. This is their test to see if the plates will sell before the BMV makes them.
Dave Frazer of Pittsburgh, a director with Pennsylvania “Support Our Troops” said, “Look, it’s simple. They’ve gone half way around the world to Afghanistan, South Korea, Iraq and elsewhere for us. Let’s make a short special trip to the local tag office for them.”
The “Support Our Troops” plate does two things: It shows support for deployed neighbors, and it raises patriotic private money to assist the families of Pennsylvania troops with education, car repairs, medical and home expenses, family emergencies and immediate finances – needs that could be met by the troops themselves if they were home.
The “Support Our Troops” license plates are available in 23 U.S. states with nine more expected to issue them this year. Support Our Troops will have the plate available in an additional 11 states in 2008.