It isn’t often that millions of folks around the country all wear the same thing on the same day–especially if it’s a good old fashioned pair of blue jeans.

But that’s going to be the case come the day after Veteran’s Day (Thursday, Nov. 12th), when “Jeans for Troops Day” rolls out all over America. It’s a program to help American servicemen and women find jobs, go to college, get adequate health care, and get help with housing. Americans are being asked to donate five dollars and wear jeans on that day to help the nation’s veterans.

If you want to help, go to www.gigofund.org/jeansfortroops, and register to donate. Here at Colton High, donations can be made to Valerie Holmes in the Print Shop, Room 516. Her son, Tyler Holmes, a CHS alumnus, is an American soldier deployed overseas.

In addition to a nation full of jeans-clad troop supporters, the “G.I. Go Fund” is asking all participants to wear a red shirt that day, too, to show support for all troops that have to be deployed in some far-away place, keeping America safe.

So if you see everyone looking like a Woodstock concert on the day after the holiday, all wearing different shapes and shades of blue jeans, you’ll know why. Why not donate and wear them yourself?