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To: Mollypitcher1
Hershey?

Milton Hershey, back before you could get tax breaks for doing charitable works, built a boarding school for orphans and impoverished children that has a campus that rivals many liberal arts colleges. It has provided scholarships for thousands of children for decades. He also built and funded a research hospital. It hasn't stopped his firm from employing thousands of people or from providing a separate endowment for the pensions of Pennsylvania state employees.

The two can't be compared.

And Trump's dad gave $1mm to a larger fund to build the NYC Vietnam Veterans Memorial. The memorial wasn't Donald's idea, his dad's donation was a small part of the larger endowment, Donald was the board member his dad deputized to represent the Trump Organization for the memorial planning commission, and he only showed up to two of the commission meetings and blew off more than 20 others.

He clearly didn't take it seriously at all - until it became political cover for him for his dad buying him out of actual service in Vietnam.

146 posted on 12/13/2015 10:21:04 AM PST by wideawake
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To: wideawake

You completely missed the point of my post.


183 posted on 12/13/2015 7:57:25 PM PST by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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