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What One Hollywood Couple is Willing To Do for The Cause.

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Story Created: Sep 18, 2008 at 9:08 PM CDT

Story Updated: Sep 18, 2008 at 9:08 PM CDT

A hollywood couple is reaching out to families in Fort Sill. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie donated more than one hundred thousand dollars to fund "Operation Hero."

The armed services YMCA will work with Lawton public schools to help kids whose parents are serving in Iraq. Specially trained teachers will mentor the children after school.

They'll focus on academic and social issues. Bill vaughan said, "Daddy and mommy are being deployed for 15 months, so the family issues change."

Currently there are 17 operation hero programs across the U.S. The Jolie-Pitt Foundation will make it possible to start four more, including the one in Lawton.

The YMCA there is receiving more than 100 thousand dollars to fund Operation Hero for the next three years.

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Brad Pitt Supports Same-Sex Marriage

Compiled by JULIE BLOOM
Published: September 18, 2008

Brad Pitt, below, has donated $100,000 to support gay marriage rights, The Associated Press reported. Mr. Pitt made the donation to fight Proposition 8, an initiative on California's November ballot that would overturn the state Supreme Court decision to legalize same-sex marriage. On Wednesday Mr. Pitt said, "Because no one has the right to deny another their life, even though they disagree with it, because everyone has the right to live the life they so desire if it doesn't harm another and because discrimination has no place in America, my vote will be for equality and against Proposition 8." Earlier this week Mr. Pitt and his wife, Angelina Jolie, announced that they had donated $2 million to help fight H.I.V./AIDS and tuberculosis in Ethiopia.

NY Times-Angie=wife

http://www.nytimes.com/20...ITTSUPP_BRF.html?ref=arts