A Big HOOOORAH to Starbucks in Memphis, TN
I know there have been a lot of emails circulating over the past year or so about Starbucks not supporting our troops. Well...I can personally attest to the fact that isn't true. At least not here in the Memphis metro area. They had a drive recently to collect coffee for our troops and collected 2500 - yes that's TWENTY FIVE HUNDRED - TWO THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED ONE POUND bags of coffee. Some of the coffee was purchased by patrons of the stores in town. The remainder was DONATED by the stores. Two Blackhawk helicopters flew down from Ft. Campbell, KY yesterday to pick up all of the coffee and send it on it's way to deployed personnel.
At "my" local Starbucks most of the staff GIVES me a bag of coffee each week that I send on to Afghanistan and Iraq. The employees are given one bag gratus each week and they have been giving me their bags for months now.
So..............if YOUR Starbucks doesn't support our troops maybe you should find another Starbucks!!!
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Actually I doubt the ones in Chicago are Janee. This seems to have been something (per the store manager at "my" Starbucks) that was done only here in Memphis. HOWEVER...it was such a success the corporation IS considering it as an annual event nation wide. Each store will get to decide if they want to participate so I daresay there will be parts of the country where it'll NEVER happen - sadly.
GOOD FOR YOU for making that contribution. Some Soldier will thank you tremendously as he/she enjoys that wonderful brew.
Blackhawks and Starbucks cofee...that's like..that's like.. well the thought's almost illegal!
How much do you think we could raise at a charity auction if we had: Troops delivering someone their morning Starbucks coffee via a Blackhawk for one week? I might take out a second mortgage for that!! LOL!
Golly Donna. What a GREAT idea for a fund raiser. Why do I think you and I would spend more than every dime we have THEN mud wrestle to determine the winner? LOL
Blackhawks and Starbucks - I think that needs to be on a t-shrt.
Hmmmm, wonder if the Blackhawks that came to pick up the coffee were the ones you saw while walking on the beach? Hope not - that would give you a leg up on this competition. BUWAHAHAHAHAHAHA
These replies are cracking me up. Blackhawks and Starbucks. What a cool idea. That is really awesome about the local Starbucks. You'll have to PM me with the location you go to. It's that time of the year when I start going to Starbucks once or twice a week.
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What's even more inspiring is the thought of how a US Soldier must feel in
a remote place like the mountains of afghanistan,to open a package and
see the ''Starbucks'' label,and know He's just a pot of hot water away
from some good old American joe.I have a picture of Michelle Malkin in
my computer that I took during Her newsclip at GOE I,I'll see if I can't make a
few copies and send 'em along with My care package,as well as Maybe
some Florida postcards featuring babes on the beach,bet they'll love that.
Dan