Posted on 12/13/2009 2:46:34 PM PST by RDTF
BANGOR, Maine — Author Stephen King and his wife are donating money so 150 soldiers from the Maine Army National Guard can come home for the holidays.
King and his wife, Tabitha, who live in Bangor, are paying $13,000 toward the cost of two bus trips so that members of the 3rd Battalion, 172nd Infantry Unit can travel from Camp Atterbury in Indiana to Maine for Christmas. The soldiers left Maine last week for training at Camp Atterbury. They are scheduled to depart for Afghanistan in January
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"But Stephen King thought the number 13 was a bit unlucky, so the couple pitched in $12,999 instead. Eugley chipped in $1 to make for an even $13,000."
There are a few good guys in the entertainment field. King looks like one, Gary Sinese and any of the country-western singers are as well.
Very nice and very generous for someone who is otherwise a quasi-socialist liberal.
King Ping
He’s trying to repair his image...y’all do remember what he said....about the individuals who couldn’t get into college HAVING to join the military???? Or something like that.
Not so much. I’ll give props to King for this, but on the other hand he did say “The fact is if you can read, you can walk into a job later on. If you don’t, then you’ve got the Army, Iraq, I don’t know, something like that” to a group of High School students.
I am sober tonight.....please forgive me, I will no longer mix allergy and pain meds with vodka...
I kind of remember that King was quoted telling kids something or other that you should study hard or join the military? He was basically slamming our troops. This was during the Bush Admin., so King gets a pass /sarc.
King is a lefty but I give him props for this.
$13,000 does not strike me as much money from a guy who probably has made hundreds of millions of dollars from novels over the years.
Stephen King spoke out of his posterior. Apparently he had a change of heart, and is doing penance. THAT, or his new book sales are in the basement, and it’s a PR move.
Check, what the most intelligent King had to say about our military.
It’s $13,000 he could have kept in his pocket.
Credit where credit is due.
You got it toyota..... he did say as much.....
BTW. Military members are considerable book consumers.
I think King as always been liberal, much like Clive Barker (only not so much as Clive, who is a prancing fairy/pedo sympathizer).
Nice.
I’m reading my way through the dark tower series again. His political leanings do come out in some of his books but I don’t read them for a political message and can enjoy a good book without getting upset.
One of my favorites was “Insomnia” but one of the main characters was a rabid crazy right winger who tried to crash a plane load of explosives into a civic center full of feminists. Despite that, it was a top notch read.
I’ve always loved Stephen King’s novels, especially the first 10 or so that he wrote.
It’s been fun introducing my 8th grade son to Stephen King, John Grisham, Tom Clancy, Michael Crichton—I actually envy him, 13 and getting to read such fun stuff for the first time. . .
Steven King is a very profilic author of the genre, and he’s written some very fine works in his day.
Salem’s Lot, The Stand, The Shining, The Tommyknockers, The Dark Half, Needful Things, and The Gunslinger are all fine reads.
I would consider him one of the masters of the craft, for our day and age.
For ANYONE to give 13,000 to the members of our armed forces is a noble and wonderful thing, regardless of the political ideology they have.
I would even go so far as to say that The Gunslinger might be remembered years from now as a great example of minimalism.
King always worked like a dog for Democrat candidates in Maine. He despised Rush Limbaugh so much that he actually purchased the radio station that carried Limbaugh and immediately changed the format to sports talk. Natch, another station picked up Limbaugh within a few weeks.
You took part in "Not One Damn Dime Day" on January 20, 2005 and that's what you'll get from me henceforth - Not One Damn Dime.
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