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

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My name has been added to this list to urge President Obama to Light the White House Blue this Sept. I hope the rest of you on this group will do likewise.

Dave Halvorsen

To: ProstateCancerSupport Sent: Wed, March 2, 2011 8:32:08 AMSubject: USA advocacy-Light the White House Blue for Prostate Cancer Awareness Month

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 bydiagnosis, 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 bluemight 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.orgThanks,Darryl