Author Stephen King to Pay for Troops' Holiday Trip Home

Fox ^ | Dec 13, 2009

[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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[Shellback Chuck]

Maybe he seen this article.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/05/men_with_guns.html

[DemforBush]

It's a good thing for the guys who are going to get to spend Christmas at home this year, whatever King's feelings towards the military may be. So kudos to King on this one.

One a somewhat related note...have any of you seen King lately? He's morphing into Keith Olbermann before our very eyes!

[raccoonradio]

Found online:
“”I don’t want to sound like an ad, a public service ad on TV, but 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. It’s not as bright.”
—SK, 2008

[raccoonradio]

>>He is a typical left wing wacko

At several points his book about the 2004 Red Sox mentioned the enthusiasm he had for Kerry.

And King is changing the format of an FM radio station he
owns near Bangor to progressive talk on Monday.

[raccoonradio]

>>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.

The AM station you mention is still sports talk but its FM sister station is switching to Air America on Monday.