Public Interest Initiatives
A delegation from the Atlanta Falcons Cheerleaders, on January 26, 2009 traveled to the Guantánamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba, to sign autographs, and enhance the troops' morale. While there, the cheerleaders toured the detention camps' hospital, and Camp IV, Camp V, & Camp VI.
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