Material will be reviewed by military community members and passed along to CJPNHRecords Inc. for consideration on the CD.
Please include your name, military affiliation and contact information.
*Military affiliation will be verified.
Please send your submission by November of 2010.
Greetings!
Welcome to our website. This project is design to help bring healing to Military Families by giving them the opportunity to communicate through music and writing. By gathering & telling the stories of our military families through venues easily reached by civilians, such as the performing arts, we will be able to build a bridge of understanding between military families and the civilian communities that support them.
We are currently collecting songs, poems and stories from Military Family members for use in our CD project. " This is America...changing the unsung part", will tell the story of our Military Families in their words, from their perspective.
Our country has been at war for so long and there is a great need for a deeper understanding of the realities that face our military families.
There are many non-profit programs designed to help support Soldiers and their Families. This project, "This is America...changing the unsung part", is designed to communicate on a massive scale the reasons for supporting and getting involved with such organizations.
This project is run by military family members. Some of our military's greatest stories never make it outside the military community. This project, combined with our industry partners will change that.
By understanding the realities of the sacrifice and connecting with our military families, we will strengthen our unity as a nation. We can be united everyday, the way we were right after 9/11.
Please read further to see how you can get involved. We need both Military and Civilian involvement. Thank you for visiting our site and don't forget to refer us to a friend or family member.
Sincerely,
Steph Lewis
If you want even more details on the heart of this project, keep reading!
CD Project Guidelines
To create a double CD of songs & poems, written by Military Families & Soldiers, in an effort to effectively share the circumstances that are a daily part of their Family lives.
Literally Changing the "Unsung Part".
CD Mission statement
To create a high quality, commercial grade, two CD project, one of songs, one of poetry written by military families, to be distributed worldwide.
This is not a vanity or a profit driven CD project. The CD is meant to be a tribute to the families of our Armed Forces and a communication tool for reaching out to the civilian community.
A compilation of our Military's stories, in their own words.
The songs & poems gathered from this project are not being solicited from professional writers*, but from people who have a story to tell.
(*Note: Professional musicians with legitimate, confirmed military ties are not excluded because of there professional status.)
"The CD project has three major guidelines:
To provide military families a creative and therapeutic outlet for expressing the impact deployments have had on their family.
To organize these expressions into a format that not only unifies and supports the military families experiencing them, but also aids in bridging the gap between the civilian and military perspectives of this war.
To do so in a manner consistent with the heart of this project by allowing money made on such expressions to be fed back into military family support programs.
What is "Bridging the Gap" People throughout our country's history have made many sacrifices for our countries freedom. These sacrifices helped instill a pride and ownership in our great nation.
In today's fast paced world of information, it is easy for the fact that we are at war to get lost in the background of our society. Military families, because of their direct involvement, do not have that option.
Telling the stories of our military families, not only gives them much deserved recognition & a needed sense of "Sharing the burden" , but it can also help bring the realities of such sacrifices back to the forefront of our awareness.
Staying vigilant of these sacrifices is a service to our nation, ourselves and our youth. Our vigilance and commitment to these concepts, brings understanding to the phrase "Freedom is not free".
Website Disclaimer and Information: All content and marks contained on this website or on other collateral or advertisement or information are owned by the "This is America" project. Any use of photographs or works of art of this website or its contents, without the expressed written permission of the owners shall be considered an infringement of copyright and is prohibited. To the best of our knowledge, all the graphics used on this site are completely free of any ownership claims, because they have been: (1) created by us for our own use or (2) used with the permission of the owner or (3) placed in the public-domain. If you are, or if you know, the subject of origin for any graphics appearing at tiachangingtheunsungpart.org without permission, please contact the project manager at tiachangingtheunsungpart@yahoo.com.
This website is not officially affiliate with the U.S. Government. This initiative although not intended for profit, is organized financially as a fundraiser for the purpose of creating this CD project, of which will be produced by CJP-NHRecords Inc. which is not filed as a 501 (c) (3) non profit organization. All cost will be covered & available upon request to sponsors. Royalties from sales of this CD project will also be donated to military family support programs. Letters of character reference may be requested via the contact page of this website. Please read our action plan for more details on the structure of this project.
