Little Hometown Soldiers is a non-profit youth organization founded in 2003 in St. Petersburg, Florida, at the inception of the Iraq war against terrorism. The organization is comprised of a core group of 20 school children from varying cultural and religious backgrounds that range from 3 – 16 years old. They are dedicated to advocating and bringing comfort to other youth that have a military parent or both parents enlisted in the Iraq war and have been deployed to the war zone. Children can often bring a unique understanding, different than adults, and also help to ease their sense of grief when they have lost a loved one. This dynamic group of youth: sing songs of patriotism; produce dramatic plays; send encouragement through written correspondence; assist in Final Rites Services; make three major television appearances per year, visit children’s hospitals; visit Veterans Hospitals and Nursing Centers and Pray Prayers of Peace for children all over the world.