I recieved this from a friend today and thought I'd share.

This gives me a good reason to not darken their doorway.

We asked our local Target store (middle GA) to be a
sponsor of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall during our spring
recognition event. We received back a reply from Target management that
"veterans do not meet our area of giving. We only donate
to the areas of the arts, social actions, gay and lesbian causes, and education."
My thought: If the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall and veterans in general, do not meet their donation criteria, something is
wrong at Target. We were not asking for thousands of dollars, not even
hundreds, but simply sponsorship of an endorsement for a memorial
remembrance. As follow-up, I E-mailed the corporate headquarters and
their response was the same. Personally, I will NOT be purchasing anything at Target Stores again. If the Vietnam Veteran or Veterans in
general do not meet their area of giving, then why should I, as a Vietnam veteran, spend my hard earned money in their stores?

Please pass this on to as many people as you know.
Sincerely,
Veterans Helping Veterans

PS: Target will also not allow the Marines to collect for "Toys For Tots" during the holidays.

See the full story here:
http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl-target-veterans.htm

I've gotta stop believing everything I read!


Thank you, Curtis for pointing that out and sharing the link

escencia -

Because of the nature of emails (all it takes is a click or two and you've just passed it along to a few dozen more people), hoaxes spread particularly easily through it. Usually reliable sources can be duped because they "got it from a reliable source," who "got it from a reliable source," who... well you get the idea. One person along the (probalby quite long) chain being trusted more than they should leads to a whole string of people thinking that the information is reliable.

But anyway, you probably knew all that. My reason for writing is just to suggest an easy way to check suspect emails (to me, just about anythign I get through email is suspect until I check it myself): www.snopes.com is a great site with a good search tool (there are others out there, this is just the one I prefer).

If one were to place this type of "story" in a local newspaper, they would be subject to libel charges, but yet, they fly around the net and nobody is held accountable for them.
I can't believe people don't check these at an Urban Legends reference site. How much business will Target lose due to this being spread all around the net?

Esencia, this is not aimed at you as a personal attack. I have recieved this e-mail probably at least 3 times myself. It is so easy to check into these, that none of them should ever be passed on until they are verified. When I find out one of these is fake, I hit the reply to all button on my e-mail and let everyone know.

As Susan Powter used to say. "LET'S STOP THE MADNESS!!"

ROTFLMAO.....I got this e-mail last year, word for word, except that it was Walmart not Target that was at issue...For the record, BOTH stores have collection drums at Christmastime, for which toy drives ,I can't say. I have seen Target, Walmart and K-Mart support about a jillion community causes and whether they do it because it is the right thing to do, or because it is good public relations, the point is that they do it!