Stevie Nicks urges fans to donate to military charities
Stevie Nicks is urging fans to donate money to military charities after witnessing the plight of injured soldiers.
The Fleetwood Mac star is a regular at the hospitals treating war veterans and she is rallying to raise funds for the United Service Organisations and the Wounder Warrior Project.
She tells Fox411's Pop Tarts column: "I have been (to visit wounded soldiers) many times. It's something I do now because many are very injured, and they need help, and they need people.
"They need people to send money to the USO and to the Wounded Warriors, and they need people just to be aware of what these kids (have sacrificed)."
The heart-wrenching visits have had a massive effect on Nick's, who wrote her track Solider's Angel as a tribute to the troops after one emotional hospital trip.
She explains: "There were 20 beds down one side and doctors and nurses everywhere, and tanks and family members. I realised that I had walked into a hospital a rock n' roll star with not a care in the world, and I was driving away from this hospital a soldier's mother.
"I went back to my motel and wrote the poem... it took me four years to put it to music. I've now given that poem out to hundreds and hundreds of soldiers and their families, their sisters, brothers, moms, dads, grandmothers, nieces, godchildren, everybody. I always told them one day it will be a song."
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