Boycott Starbucks !!!!

Cadence Steele's Avatar
I got this message from a friend who is a veteran. I understand not everyone understands the concept that our men and women unselfishly volunteer for the freedom of others but this is horrible .


( Semper Fi Marine. Hope you are well.
A good friend of mine sent me an e-mail about how Starbucks disrespected some of your fellow Leathernecks. They were deployed to the " STAN " and wrote a letter to Starbucks seeking any free samples they could get from the company. Starbucks sent back a response to their request that they ( Starbucks ) : don't support the war or its goals OR ANYONE INVOLVED IN IT !
I've never purchased anything from those pretentious pricks before and damn sure won't now. It's my intent to spread the word to as many vets and active duty folks as I come across. There is a Starbucks in Wilford Hall Military Medical Clinic, so I wonder how the company justifies taking the money of sick and wounded active duty and retired military personnel and their dependents and having a " no tolerance " for the very people that are deployed to protect their freedom ?
War has been declared by this former squid Marine !
Hope you and your " critters " are doing well. )


Starbucks could have respectively declined a response at all but to give this answer ?
Groovy Johnson's Avatar
Sgt. Howard C Wright wrote the email in 2004.
He has since retracted and apologized,explaining it was a rumor he heard second-hand. A friend heard it from a friend.
He later said that Starbucks does support the troops.
Groovy Johnson's Avatar
Sgt Wright requests that everyone who posted his original email,also post his subsequent letter of apology.
Starbucks has been left-wing for a long time. Plenty of other options for me.