A local organization dedicated to “supporting the troops” is using billboards featuring local children to get their message across. Calling themselves America’s Voice/Children Expressed, the group has put up two billboards with one more scheduled for early April. The billboard features four children, each saluting while dressed in the uniform of an armed service. When asked why they chose children for the billboard, project creator Susan Townsend said “There is no purer form of expressing something than through a child.” Before deciding to exploit children in creating propaganda, the primary activity of this group was raising funds to provide soldiers with postcards, phone cards and care packages. According to the groups founder, she was inspired to start the organization after her teenage daughter wrote a poem praising U.S. troops. The two existing billboards are located on 36th Street SE just east of Eastern Avenue SE, the west side of Northland Drive just north of 10 Mile Road in Rockford, and the third is to be at Burton Street SW just east of Burlingame Avenue SW.
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