 Former Marine Captain and CIA officer Johnny Michael Spann was the first American to give his life in Afghanistan almost a decade ago. His daughter Allison was just 10 years old at the time and after losing her mother to cancer a short time later the ability to pay for college seemed to fade away. But today Captain Spann's service is providing for his daughter through the Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation. The Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation funds, as you've heard it, children of the wounded, children of the fallen, of those who serve and those who have served. Allison is now a sophomore at Pepperdine University and one of 1,600 students receiving help from the Foundation this year. And I definitely one day want to get back to this foundation. I want to be one of the people who has supported me for another student. I would love to be a donor someday and really put what the scholarship has given me into action. Medal of Honor recipient Sergeant Dakota Meyer is jumping on the bandwagon as well. The Sergeant Dakota Meyer Scholarship Initiative is aimed at raising two million dollars for the Foundation. In my entire Marine Corps career everything was about challenges and getting a challenge in front of you and meeting that challenge. So what I decided to do was it's challenged myself to raise a million dollars for the scholarship fund and then the initiative and then I'm challenging America to match dollar for dollar on what I can bring into the fund. By rising to Sergeant Meyer's challenge, Americans will contribute to the success of students like Allison, hardworking scholars who know all too well the cost of war. To donate to the fund you can go to www.marine-scholars.org. From Washington I'm PFC Johns Hucker.