Starbucks??????

[RHARVEY]

Coffee Anyone?



Recently Marines in Iraq wrote to Starbucks because they wanted to let them know how much they liked their coffees and to request that they send some of it to the troops there.

Starbucks replied, telling the Marines thank you for their support of their business, but that Starbucks does not support the war, nor anyone in it, and that they would not send the troops their brand of coffee.

So as not to offend Starbucks, maybe we should not support them by buying any of their products!

As a war vet writing to fellow patriots, I feel we should get this out in the open. I know this war might not be very popular with some folks, but that doesn't mean we don't support the boys on the ground fighting street-to-street and house-to-house for what they and I believe is right.







If you want you can discard it and no one will never know.

Thanks very much for your support. I know you'll all

be ther! e again when I deploy once more.

Semper Fidelis. "

Sgt. Howard C. Wright

1st Force Recon Co

1st Plt PLT

 

[RankRam]

Just another reason to hate Starbucks!

 

[AMink]

Or maybe not. I don't drink much Starbucks because I can't see paying that much for a cup o' joe!

 

[HEMI®Dart]

It looks like this story is false.



http://www.snopes.com/politics/military/starbucks.asp

 

[Cummins Pilot]

Already make sure I don't buy Starbucks. I can't stand them.

 

[Gene Arnold]

I never cease to be amazed at how quickly people believe rumors, half-truths, and outright lies, especially when the source is the internet. I spent a fifty-one year career in a field where I constantly had to be on the alert for such tripe and tried to refute it when I got the chance. Sadly, by the time someone who knows the facts gets the opportunity to speak to the issue the lie is so widespread that it takes on a life of its own (for example, the infamous “Protocols of the Elders of Zion” that has played a key role in shaping anti-Semitic attitudes and even violence against Jews. More than a century of efforts by truth tellers has failed to effectively stop it).



Nearly thirty years ago the Proctor and Gamble corporation was accused of sponsorship of the Church of Satan. Efforts to refute this have been largely unsuccessful and the story still surfaces from time to time.



I’ve lost count of the people who have asked my permission to circulate among church members, petitions to the FCC asking them to not bend to the efforts of Madeline Murray O’Hare to make all religious broadcasting illegal. For forty years the FCC has been inundated with millions of petitions. They have begged people to cease, but the lie is still out there, long after Ms. O’Hare’s death!



Somebody (this old man can’t remember who it was) rightly said, “A lie makes its way around the world before the truth can get its boots on!”



It doesn’t really seem so serious until you are the victim. You never really can fully recover from lies and/or innuendoes that have been spread about you (don’t ask me how I know).



My dad used to say, “Don’t believe half what you see, and none of what you hear!” Pretty good advice, especially today with what masquerades as “news casting”!



The answer to all this is, VERIFY, VERIFY, VERIFY!!



Gene