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For Immediate Release
November 14, 2007

Supernatural's Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki Receive High Honors on Veteran's Day

Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki received a very special honor on
Sunday, November 11, 2007. Ackles and Padalecki, stars of the CW's
television program, Supernatural, were special guests at Creation
Entertainment's "Salute to Supernatural, Smallville and Buffy/Angel" in
Schaumburg, IL.

Master Sergeant Kevin Wise, a Special Forces soldier, was in attendance
at the convention. Wise joined Ackles and Padalecki on stage to
announce that Supernatural Season One and Season Two are the most
requested DVDs among armed forces personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Wise also reported that Warner Brothers Entertainment, Inc. and Kripke
Entertainment, Inc. are going to send 3,000 copies of the DVDs to
soldiers stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Wise next presented Ackles and Padalecki each with a thank you letter
from General David H. Petraeus, Commander of the Multi-National Force
in Iraq, as well as an honorary Special Forces coin from his unit.

Wise explained that five active Special Forces Groups are in existence.
Each group has its own unique coin. Wise is a part of the 12-member
Special Forces Unit ODA 045 or "Team Texas." To receive a coin,
recipients must either become a Green Beret or be given one by a Green
Beret. Civilians are rarely given a coin.

Ackles and Padalecki were very touched by the gesture, and presented
Wise with a shooting script, signed by the Supernatural cast and crew.

This press release was sent by the fans of Supernatural. For more
information on Creation Entertainment's "Salute to Supernatural,
Smallville and Buffy/Angel", please contact Monica Gillen at monica@creationent.com
.

This wonderful honor received by Jared and Jensen has been helped, in part, by the workings of Operation: Winchester, a website dedicated to sending care packages, along with a Supernatural DVD, to the troops.

www.operationwinchester.com

The coins they were presented with are known as challenge coins. The tradition of challenge coins goes back to WWI when a wealthy leutenant had customized coins minted to give to the other pilots of his sqadron. When one of the pilots in his unit was shot down over Germany his life was saved when he was able to prove his identity by showing his coin to French soldiers. Now, most military units and high ranking officers have custom coins, and bestowing one of these coins on a person who is not a member of the unit is a very high honor for that individual.

For more information about challenge coins and the traditions that go with them try this link:

http://www.answers.com/topic/challenge-coin?cat=technology