A Series of Unfortunate E-Mails
A Couple of days ago, I recieved this e-mail. It was forwarded to me by my mother-in-law.(Her sister-in-law sent it to her and about 25 other people!)
Doing my homework, I investigated! Here is what has transpired to date:
Dick Forrey of the Vietnam Veterans Association wrote.
"Recently we asked the local TARGET store to be a proud Sponsor of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall during ourSpring recognition event.
We received the following replyFrom the local TARGET management: " Veterans do not meet ourA rea of giving. We only donate to the arts, social actionGroups, gay & lesbian causes, and education."
So I'm thinking, if the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall andVeterans in general, do not meet their donation criteria,Then something is really wrong at this TARGET store. We were Not asking for thousands of dollars, not even hundreds, justA small sponsorship for a memorial remembrance.
As a follow-up, I E-mailed the TARGET U.S. CorporateHeadquarters and their response was the same. That's theirNational policy.Then I looked into the company [ http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/postman7/*http:/us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=39666/*http:/messenger.yahoo.com ]Further. They will not allowThe Marines to collect for 'Toys for Tots' at any of their Stores. And during the recent Iraq deployment, they wouldNot allow families of employees who were called up forActive duty to continue their insurance coverage whileThey were on military service. Then as I dig further, TARGETIs a French-owned corporation.
Now, I'm thinking again. If TARGET cannot support AmericanVeterans, then why should my family and I support theirStores by spending our hard earned America! N dollars!
And, Have their profits sent to France.
Without the AmericanVets, where would France be today?"They, most likely would be speaking German and trading in Deutsch Marks"
Sincerely,Dick ForreyVeterans Helping Veterans
Please send this on to everyone you know To let Target know We don't need them either ![ http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/postman7/*http:/us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=39666/*http:/messenger.yahoo.com ]
8 comments:
i thoroughly dislike this type of e-mail... i immediately delete them and pay no more attention
they piss me off too!
i know... it shows!
they really were unfortunate, as you say!
heeeeheeeeheeee!!!!
Yeah...i can't tell you how many people i've referred to snopes...it makes you doubt everything!
yes they do!!!
You nicely summed up the issue. I would add that this doesn’t exactly concenplate often. xD Anyway, good post…
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