Americans across the country are joining in on a push-up challenge that is being tracked, tagged, tweeted and posted with #DropAndGiveMe10. Celebrities, active military, veterans and everyday citizens are taking videos of them doing push-ups and nominating more people to do the same.
As an effort to spread awareness and raise money for Children of Fallen Patriots Foundation, whose mission is to provide college scholarships and educational counseling to military children who have lost a parent while serving our country, the #DropAndGiveMe10 challenge honors the fallen by encouraging us all to take care of those who survived them.
Participants in the challenge film a video of themselves doing pushups in honor of our fallen patriots. For each successful pushup, they donate $2, $5 or $10 (or any amount) to Children of Fallen Patriots and then challenge three more people to do the same. The campaign has raised tens of thousands of dollars so far, making the estimated $500 million cost of college education for the 20,000 surviving children of fallen patriots smaller and smaller with each pushup.    Â
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