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Posted on 03/07/2005 7:33:54 PM PST by The Loan Arranger
"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 in 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, 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 feel the same as I do then pass this along, or you can discard it and no one will never know. Thanks very much for your support of me, and I know you'll all be there again when I deploy once more."
"Semper Fidelis." Sgt Howard C. Wright 1st Force Recon Co 1st Plt PLT RTO
Debunked by Snopes.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/military/starbucks.asp
It's crap - this thread should be pulled, and it is irresponsible to promote this tired old urban legend.
Complete, and old, BS
fake
There was a thread on this a while back.
Old stuff, long debunked. Starbucks had to make a statement denying it.
You should probably ask the mods to delete your vanity, as it's totally false.
It's time to FReep the hell out of Starbucks!
I'm never going there again!
Not only is the post a hoax, but my local Starbuck's was collecting donations for the troops at Christmas to send them coffee.
Starbucks is overpriced, but they don't hate soldiers. Total BS story.
Rumor is false, but Starbucks did have a fiasco when they made a poster based on 9/11 advertising some of their drinks.
ow many times will people post this utterly B.S> story on FR?
Still not true.
This thread should be pulled. Even this Sgt admits it is false.
I do not support Starbucks. My beef is over price not politics.
I did about 10 minutes ago....
I think your friend, although trustworthy himself, was deceived by the email.
Agreed that coffe shops seem like a liberal type establishment, though - not like a cafe with beer for rednecks.
How come everytime an "email" is posted, the poster says it comes form "someone I trust"????
at the time of this story,all starbucks said was that some of their employees were sending their free ,monthly allotments of coffee beans out to iraq, and never answered the question ....
had a heated discussion with snopes about their acceptance of starbucks statement as "debunking" a myth.---employees mailing their coffe beans out voluntarily is not exactly the same as starbucks incorporated sending out donations.
Rule of thumb that whatever you get forwarded to you by email (even by a "trusted" friend) is some sort of scam or hoax. Before posting it here, run it through any one of a number of email hoax or "urban legend" sites (such as snopes.com) as it is likely to have already been debunked.
Even better, run a search here on Free Republic. If there was even a grain of truth to this, it would have been disseminated on this site right from the get-go. We don't miss anything around here.
urban myth
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