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Boy wins trip to Disney, gives it to fallen soldier’s family
Yahoo News ^
| 5/30/12
| Dylan Stableford
Posted on 05/30/2012 8:55:07 AM PDT by Kartographer
A 9-year-old Massachusetts boy who earned an all-expenses-paid Disney World vacation through an innovative Facebook experiment gave the trip away to the family of a soldier killed in Afghanistan.
Brendan Haas created the "Soldier for a Soldier" Facebook page in February. Inspired by the story of the guy who, through a series of trades, turned a paper clip into a house, Haas started with a toy soldier and eventually traded up to $900 worth of Disney gift certificates, airfare and hotel credits.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Massachusetts
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Brendan Haas
To: Kartographer
Congratulations to Brandon and his parents, who have reared an admirable son.
“It is more blessed to give than to receive.” (Acts 20:35)
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posted on
05/30/2012 8:58:02 AM PDT
by
txrefugee
To: Kartographer
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posted on
05/30/2012 8:58:11 AM PDT
by
b4its2late
(A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
To: Kartographer
Great job. The best I ever got from playing that game was a couch. This young man is a hero. (and I don’t use that word lightly)
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posted on
05/30/2012 9:01:13 AM PDT
by
cyclotic
(People who live within their means are increasingly being forced to pay for people who didn't.)
To: Kartographer
What a great kid!
And what great parents he must have...well done folks! You're raising the kind of kid this country desperately needs.
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posted on
05/30/2012 9:03:26 AM PDT
by
pgkdan
(ANYBODY BUT OBAMA!)
To: Kartographer
I hope to read a followup saying that Disney has given Brendan and his family a VIP visit ‘on the house’.
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posted on
05/30/2012 9:03:45 AM PDT
by
DJ Frisat
((optional, printed after my name on post))
To: Kartographer
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posted on
05/30/2012 9:06:07 AM PDT
by
muir_redwoods
(I like Obamacare because Granny signed the will and I need the cash)
To: Kartographer
What a wonderful young man. His parents must be so very proud of him.
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posted on
05/30/2012 9:08:03 AM PDT
by
liberalh8ter
(If Barack has a memory like a steel trap, why can't he remember what the Constitution says?)
To: Kartographer
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posted on
05/30/2012 9:08:38 AM PDT
by
GOPJ
( "A Dog In Every Pot" - freeper ETL)
To: Kartographer
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posted on
05/30/2012 9:14:17 AM PDT
by
rawhide
To: Kartographer
Bravo Zulu Brendan.
5.56mm
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posted on
05/30/2012 9:17:55 AM PDT
by
M Kehoe
To: Kartographer
Any effect on Facebook stock value?
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posted on
05/30/2012 9:18:21 AM PDT
by
treetopsandroofs
(Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
To: Kartographer
God Bless this child. I wish I had what he has in his heart.
I wonder how much of this the government is going to take as their “fair share”?
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posted on
05/30/2012 9:27:47 AM PDT
by
SengirV
To: SengirV
I wonder how much of this the government is going to take as their “fair share”?Just wait until the Lemonaid Stand Police decide he owes some sort of personal gains tax and fines for operating without a license. Then those tickets had tax paid on them. And the fallen soldier's family will be hit up to pay a gift tax.
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posted on
05/30/2012 9:54:28 AM PDT
by
bgill
To: cyclotic
Yes, Yes, but be careful using the word HERO... “it is so rhetorically proximate to justifications for more war.” (Chris Hayes MSNBC)
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posted on
05/30/2012 9:57:14 AM PDT
by
Dudoight
To: bgill
Money is little to pay when placed next to the humiliation of the manhandling and the molestation they will have to endure at the hands of the TSA when they go to the airport to board their flight.
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posted on
05/30/2012 10:09:58 AM PDT
by
Kartographer
("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
To: Kartographer
I am telling you, there is still hope for this country.
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posted on
05/30/2012 10:29:51 AM PDT
by
Persevero
(Homeschooling for Excellence since 1992)
To: Kartographer
God Bless this young man.
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posted on
05/30/2012 10:51:50 AM PDT
by
SandRat
(Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
To: rawhide
This kid is a future Marine!!!
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posted on
05/30/2012 10:58:30 AM PDT
by
41Thunder
(The SUPPLY of Government is GREATER than the DEMAND of the people)
To: Kartographer
Way to go, young man! You done good.
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