Starbucks Support

[oldanglico]

Hi everyone, I just wanted to share this with you. This EMail arrived in my pile today. Shows how much support is swilling around that this reached me in a far off distant corner of England. Semper Fi
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>Starbucks Denies Coffee to Marines !!
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>Recently Marines in Iraq wrote to Starbucks because they wanted to let them
>know how much they liked their coffee and to request that they send some of
>it
>to the troops there.
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>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,
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>that they would not send the troops their brand of coffee.
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>So as not to offend Starbucks, maybe we should not support them by buying
>any of their products!
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>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 w! hat they and I believe is right.
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>If you feel the same as I do then pass this along, or you can discard it
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>no one will never know.
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>Thanks very much for your support. I know you'll all be there again when I
>deploy once more.
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>"Semper Fidelis."
>Sgt Howard C. Wright
>1st Force Recon Co
>1st Plt PLT
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>PLEASE DONT DELETE THIS ... ALLOW IT TO BE PASSED TO ALL
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>IN MEMORY OF ALL THE TROOPS WHO HAVE DIED SO THAT WE MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO
>CHOOSE TO SUPPORT THEM OR NOT
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[thedrifter]

Claim: Starbucks refused free product to G.I.s serving in Iraq, saying it didn't support the war and anyone in it. <br />
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Status: False. <br />
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