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Celebrate July 4th Everyday July 4th, the most patriotic of American holidays, reminds us to thank those who guarantee our freedom and remember those who have sacrificed everything. On the fourth and everyday after, Americans around the world can show their thanks by supporting the families who are left behind as their loved one serves.  Find out some simple ways you can support military families.   Operation Purple Retreats For Military Families NMFA is pleased to announce two  pilots of the Operation Purple program - Operation Purple Healing Adventures and Operation Purple Legacy Retreat. Operation Purple Healing Adventures is designed to meet the needs of wounded service members and their families through a week of family-centered activities, as well as couples seminars and activities. Learn more about Operation Purple Healing Adventures. NMFA is also accepting applications for Operation Purple Legacy Retreat which is geared to meet the needs and challenges of surviving family members. Click here to find details about Operation Purple Legacy Retreat.  FDA Advises Patients to Switch to HFA-Propelled Albuterol Inhalers Now The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a public health advisory to alert patients, caregivers and health care professionals to switch to hydrofluoroalkane (HFA)-propelled albuterol inhalers because chlorofluorocarbon (CFC)-propelled inhalers will not be available in the United States after December 31, 2008. CFC-propelled albuterol inhalers are being phased out because they are harmful to the environment by contributing to depletion of the ozone layer above the Earth's surface. <<more>>    Sesame Workshop Launches Phase Two of Military Families Outreach Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit organization behind Sesame Street, today launched Talk, Listen, Connect: Deployments, Homecomings, Changes, the second phase of the Workshop's military outreach program launched initially in 2006. The initiative provides support and offers significant resources for military families with young children experiencing the effects of deployments, multiple deployments or when a parent returns home changed due to a combat related injury. <<more>>  DoD Receives Additional Mental Health Care Providers The Department of Defense (DoD) has announced that they have signed a memorandum of agreement with the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) to increase mental health services available to active duty service members, retirees, and their families.   “Thanks to this agreement, the U.S. Public Health Service will send us mental health professionals with all disciplines, and the military services will place them in locations with the greatest need,” said Dr. S. Ward Casscells, assistant secretary of defense for health affairs. <<more>>

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