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#1 Unread post by dr_bar »

If a store in the USA didn't support American Vets, would people shop there? Would there be a public outcry?

Well, in Canada, we have this "American" store that refuses to let our Vets sell Poppies as a fund raiser in their stores. I've never heard of a store chain doing this during the lead-up to Remembrance Day. Poppies are sold by the Canadian Legion only once a year to support programs for Vets.

So, the name of that store??? TARGET...

Let's make them a Target and refuse to shop there...
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#2 Unread post by NorthernPete »

That story was a misunderstanding apparently. Both target and the head office for the legion have come out and said that. A bit of follow up.

http://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/target-insis ... -1.1469110
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I'll still boycott them, as the article says, saying one thing then doing a 180, doesn't wash with me...
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3/84th FA PERSHING!!!!!
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#5 Unread post by blues2cruise »

Dave....I don't know what this means...

3/84th FA PERSHING

Were you a dog faced soldier and not a fancy pants marine? :)
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3rd Battalion 84th field artillery regiment U.S. Army named after General Black Jack Pershing we did not even have a cannon :mrgreen: we were intermediate nuclear missles by the 1980's. Sorry took so long I have not checked this in awhile.
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