Dunkin Donuts Iced Coffee Day
April 5, 2009 by Marye Audet
Filed under Coffee News
April 21st is a pretty important day. It is my birthday, and that is important but believe it or not there is something even better. I know, right? Strange to contemplate but there you have it. There are things more important and even cooler than me.
Dunkin Donuts is promoting Iced Coffee Day. On Tuesday, April 21, 2009 Dunkin Donuts will be selling iced coffees for 50 cents and every sale of those coffees means the Dunkin Donuts will contribute to Homes for Our Troops. They will be giving 10 percent and a miniumum of 100,000.00
Homes for Our Troops is an amazing organization. They remodel homes for troops that have been severely injured and adapt the homes for wheelchairs or other special needs, at no cost to the soldier, airman, marine, or sailor…how cool is that?
This is something that is near and dear to my heart. Marc and I are both veterans, the children of veterans, and our son is currently somewhere. Last we heard, in January he was in Bagdhad. It is an eerie feeling to know that your kid is somewhere and not know where, or how he is. How people who have kids in the military and do not know the Lord do this I can’t imagine.
Anyway… the other reason it is near and dear to me is that Marc is a disabled vet, and a friend of ours has MS and is in a motorized chair. I have seen first hand how difficult simple things can be and how expensive adaptation is.
All you have to do is show up at your local Dunkin Donuts on 4/21 and order an iced coffee. Fifty cents. You can pour it out if you don’t like it, or hand it to the homeless guy outside. But you will be giving something to some pretty important people. And it is a great way to wish me a happy birthday. 
image:Dunkin Donuts
I’m pretty excited about the 21st, mostly for the fact that it’ll be helping a great cause. I love hearing about big companies doing something like this to help out deserving organizations. Not only does it raise them a lot of money but it also gets the word out about them.
I agree Mike. I love this!
Now that is a great thing! Of course, I could just donate directly to this cause. I know that you’ll be giving yours away.
Yes, it is a bizarre thing not to know just where your own son is. Thank you and Marc for your service and thank your son for his the next time he emerges from the mist.
(My husband has two granddaughters serving somewhere over there, too. One is on a ship somewhere in the Persian Gulf and the other is in the mists as well.)
Vee, Yeah, I will be donating not drinking. But I really love what they are doing, and on my birthday no less!