. >> clare gorman knows first hand how it feels to have a family member stationed abroad. >> my nephew patrick was enlisted right after college into the air force and a few months later he was deployed to iraq. to a place called camp bucca. >> patrick became the inspiration for the teens to take action. >> they came to me after they decided that they wanted to do something special at the bronxville youth council and i had talked to patrick and said, "what do you need most?" and he said phone cards, so they jumped right on it. >> major vincent heintz was stationed in the sunni triangle in iraq. >> phone cards were critical, not just to me, but to the soldiers, our sailors and airmen that we served with. that's the only way that the guys and the women we worked with could call home and just be in touch and stay involved with their families. >> anytime you can connect a deployed soldier with his family, or her family back home you're not, you're not just helping that soldier in their morale, you're actually helping the family as well. we don't just deploy a soldier nowadays, we deploy the