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While the yellow ribbon has become the accepted sign of support for U.S. troops fighting overseas, it is decidedly plain, impersonal and sometimes intensely politicized.

At least that is what the founders of Take Pride believe, and they are trying to rally America’s youth around a new set of symbols that show solidarity with the country’s servicemen and servicewomen. The organization is promoting T-shirts aimed at evoking the spirit of the troops who are fighting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, without taking a political stance.

So far, the group offers nine different shirts inspired by individual soldiers and Marines who have risked their lives — or are risking their lives — on the battlefield. The shirts are colorful and contemporary, and capture the mood of those who have lived the wars.

There is a shirt that depicts a medical cross emblazoned with an image of Iraq and the words "to fight" and "to heal," emphasizing the duality of a medic’s mission. There is a portrait on another shirt of a stoic Marine with the phrase "living history" below his face. And on a shirt called "Me and My 16" is a soldier with his trusty rifle and a verse from Proverbs: "The lamp of the wicked shall be put out."

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