ZeroBucksThirty: The Gang Goes To Philly For The Army Navy Game

Starbucks hosted us down in Philly for the Army Navy game. They’ve hired 21k military veterans and family members so far with a pledge to go to at least 25k hired. What they are doing in the military world is simply incredible.

They get a bad wrap because of a meme went viral a few years ago. Here’s the information from Snopes.

An email from a Marine sergeant said:

Dear everyone: Please pass this along to anyone you know, this needs to get out in the open. Recently Marines over in Iraq supporting this country in OIF wrote to Starbucks because they wanted to let them know how much they liked their coffee and try to score some free coffee grounds. Starbucks wrote back telling the Marines thanks for their support in their business, but that they don’t support the War and anyone in it and that they won’t send them the Coffee. So as not to offend them we should not support in buying any Starbucks products. As a War vet and writing to you patriots I feel we should get this out in the open. I know this War might not be very popular with some folks, but that doesn’t mean we don’t support the boys on the ground fighting street to street and house to house for what they and I believe is right. If you feel the same as I do then pass this along, or you can discard it and I’ll never know. Thanks very much for your support to me, and I know you’ll all be there again here soon when I deploy once more.

Semper Fidelis,
Sgt Howard C. Wright
1st Force Recon Co
1st Plt PLT RTO

However, most people didnt see the correction that the same Marine sent because he was wrong.

Dear Readers,

Almost 5 months ago I sent an email to you my faithful friends. I did a wrong thou that needs to be cleared up. I heard from word of mouth about how Starbucks said they didn’t support the war and all. I was having enough of that kind of talk and didn’t do my research properly like I should have. This is not true. Starbucks supports the men and women in uniform. They have personally contacted me and I have been sent many of their Company’s policy on this issue. So I apologize for this quick wrong letter I sent out to you. Now I ask that you all pass this email around to everyone you passed the last one to. Thank you very much for understanding about this.

Howard C. Wright
Sgt USMC

Anyway, Starbucks has hired 21k veterans and spouses and has opened up military family stores across the country. In addition to that, they’ve donated 3 million cups of coffee to military members just in 2018. They’ve also helped with tuition and so much more. Learn more about what they are doing at Starbucks.com/veterans.