USA advocacy-Light the White House Blue for Prostate Cancer Awareness Month

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Please visit http://lightthewhitehouseblue.org and consider signing the petition

(reproduced below) to ask President Obama to light the White House blue for one

evening during Prostate Cancer Awareness Month September 2011.

Dear Mr. President:

Prostate Cancer affects the lives of millions of Americans. Whether by

diagnosis, treatment costs, lost work and family hours and, even death, prostate

cancer resonates pain throughout our nation, every minute of every day. Lighting

the White House blue for one night during Prostate Cancer Awareness Month

September 2011 will raise Prostate Cancer awareness by asking all Americans to

consider Prostate Cancer's impact on our country. Lighting the White House blue

might even get some guys to think about going to see their doctors and ask about

Prostate Cancer testing.

Mr. President, please light the White House blue to honor the more than 300,000

American men who have died from prostate cancer in the past decade; for the more

than 192,000 new cases that will be diagnosed this year; for the 32,000 men in

the U.S. who will die from it this year; for African-American men who are 60

percent more likely to be diagnosed with prostate cancer and 2.4 times more

likely to die from it and for the nearly 2.5 million American men and their

families who are currently challenged by this cancer.

We, the undersigned, rally in support of lighting 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, the

people's house, blue this September.

Please sign at http://lightthewhitehouseblue.org

Thanks,

Darryl