On Sept. 2, 2005, a 20-year-old soldier stationed in Iraq wrote a journal entry about the experiences she had that day. She had talked to a shop owner about black market gas prices and held the hand of one of her favorite little girls.

Because of a new Web site launched this past June, people can now wear the words of her journal entry on an army-green T-shirt to show their support for the military overseas.

Takepride.com is a Web site run mainly by college students across the country.

It sells T-shirts inspired by the lives and actions of real people in the military.

Stephen Patton, a senior at Notre Dame who helps with the site, said he thinks people have forgotten about the efforts of our service members in Iraq and Afghanistan and takepride.com is hoping to change that.

"We're hoping that our Web site and T-shirts will help people reconnect with our soldiers abroad and at the same time show support with a new, stylish symbol," Patton said.

After Patton became involved in the project, he started e-mailing service members in Iraq and Afghanistan to get support.

"I asked them to fill out a questionnaire we had put together, and it was the responses that inspired most of our t-shirts," he said.

Kyle Udelson, a freshman at New York University who also helps out with the project, said takepride.com actually has two main purposes.

"One being a venue for people to learn about the individuals that inspire the T-shirt designs and the other being an actual forum for people to place T-shirt orders," Udelson said.

To help achieve the first purpose and expose site visitors to service members, the Web site has a section called "Uncommon Americans."

The section features various people who are in the military -- displaying their pictures and biographical information.

The "Uncommon Americans" section also provides an e-mail address so visitors to the site can e-mail the service members who are displayed on the site.

Despite the political implications that may be present when making T-shirts about the war, the creators of the site said their products are non-political.

Udelson said he thinks supporting the troops is personal rather than political.

"True, you may be a Democrat fervently against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan or you may be a Republican avidly supporting the wars overseas," Udelson said.

"You can be and feel any of these things but still acknowledge the tremendous sacrifices of troops overseas without feeling politically aligned."

Takepride.com also sponsors the troops by donating at least 20 percent of their profits to charities and causes that assist veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan.

"[The shirts] are 100 percent about the people," Patton said. "What we're all about here, at TakePride, is letting our fellow Americans serving over in Iraq and Afghanistan know that we still care about them, that their lives matter to us."