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Milo Ventimiglia USO Tour

by Arieanna on July 31st, 2008

Milo Ventimiglia celebrated the actual day of his birthday on tour with US soldiers. Milo Ventimiglia was thrown a surprise birthday celebration during his 7-day 3-country USO tour on July 9th.

Milo Ventimiglia traveled on the 66th annual USO tour to Iraq, Kuwait and Afghanistan with the NFL commissioner, Roger Goodell, two football players, a couple of cheerleaders and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen.

USO Photo by Dave Gatley

Milo was noted as saying there’s "no place else" he’d rather be on his birthday, and tried to hide his birthday in order not to take away from the purpose of the tour - to salute the troops. That said, Milo still got his cake and a rousing rendition of Happy Birthday.

Milo Ventimiglia went on the USO Tour to say thank you to all the people experiencing the war. Milo is quoted as saying:

"My father’s a veteran, my uncle’s a veteran, my grandfather was a veteran. I nearly went into the Navy myself when I was 18. So I got a chance to go overseas and give the men and women of the armed forces a little bit of a respite"

Check out this video that Milo made to thank the troops:

Here are some more images of Milo on the USO tour:

USO Photos by Dave Gatley

Via uso.org, nypost ; The first two images are a work of a U.S. Army soldier or employee, taken or made during the course of the person’s official duties. They are part of the public domain.

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