Editors note:  This is a guest post by Danielle Carrig, Senior Vice President of Public Affairs at A&E Television Networks, home of Army Wives and Coming Home, Sunday nights on Lifetime.

Military families are the subject of recent growing attention and fast becoming a cause receiving high-profile support.  For me, this was most apparent when executives at NBC Universal organized a large roundtable breakfast on their studio lot to discuss the media’s role in supporting military families.  To gather most of the public affairs executives in Hollywood, in addition to White House staff members and officials from the Department of Defense and the Pentagon is quite a feat and one that does not happen often.   Pushing aside our competitive differences, all of us at that breakfast agreed, this is an issue that we care passionately about and want to rally our perspective networks, agencies and studios to support.  Most importantly, we know it is an issue that our audiences and clients care about as well.

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