Madness

"karl" wrote in message
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Allong a similar note:

By: Dick Forrey of the Vietnam Veterans Association

Recently we asked the local TARGET store to be a proud sponsor of the
Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall during our spring recognition event.
We received the following reply from the local TARGET management:

"Veterans do not meet our area of giving. We only
donate to the arts, social action groups, gay & lesbian causes, and
education."

So I'm thinking, if the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall and veterans in
general do not meet their donation criteria, then something is really
wrong
at this particular TARGET store. We were not asking for thousands of
dollars, not even hundreds, just a small sponsorship for a memorial
remembrance
As a follow-up, I e-mailed the TARGET US corporate headquarters and their
response was the same. That's their national policy.

Then I looked into the company further. They will not allow the United
States Marine Corps to collect for 'Toys for Tots' at any of their stores.
And during the recent Iraq deployment, they would not allow families of
employees who were called up for active duty to continue their insurance
coverage while they were on military service. Then as I dig further,
TARGET
is a French-owned corporation.

Now, I'm thinking again. If TARGET cannot support American Veterans, then
why should I and my family support their stores by spending our hard
earned
American dollars and to have their profits sent to France.

Without the American Vets, where would France be today?
Speaking German and eating weinershnitzel perhaps.

I must be missing the correlation to a security issue here but I'll tell you
this much.
I heard the same thing about Target Stores recently and I'm in the process
of investigating it further as I write this. If this is true, it's going to
be an absolute nightmare for Target, and rightly so. I can only imagine the
absolute stupidity that would spawn such a corporate policy. It flies in the
face of anything even remotely resembling common sense more or less American
loyalty. Quite frankly, I'm sick to death of total morons who feel the need
to take their agendas out on the Vietnam vets. If they have a problem with
the Vietnam war, they should take that problem to the US Government and
leave the vets alone! The vets were NOT responsible for starting the damn
war and ANYONE or ANY COMPANY who takes it out on these people is a complete
idiot!
I would suggest that if Target can be verified as having the company policy
you have stated here, that every American should consider this seriously
when thinking of making a purchase from them. I know they will have seen MY
last dollar anyway!
Dudley Henriques
International Fighter Pilots Fellowship
Commercial Pilot/ CFI Retired
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