"The U.S. military doesn't do all its public relations work overseas -- it's also investing in grass-roots efforts here at home," reports NPR's Martin Kaste. "The Pentagon's 'America Supports You [3]' program employs Pentagon staff and private PR contractors to coordinate activities that support the armed forces. 'Freedom Walk' marches, letter-writing campaigns, even supplements in kids' Weekly Reader, are all paid for by the Pentagon itself. One recent effort is a campaign to get people at major league baseball games to 'text-message' their support to the troops on their cell phones... even though those messages aren't actually sent to the troops. ... Much of the publicity work has been farmed out to a private firm, Susan Davis International [4]. For the first year of America Supports You, the firm signed Pentagon contracts for at least $2.7 million." To keep a closer eye on all this, we've begun a SourceWatch [5] article that you can go to by clicking here: America Supports You [6]. Join our volunteer collaborative research community in buidling a fair, accurate and well-documented article on this Pentagon PR campaign.