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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is a really nice instinct. But I used to volunteer at a food bank sorting donations, and immediately after all the "candy" holidays (Halloween, Valentine's Day, Christmas to a lesser extent), we got a HUGE glut of candy. People want it out of their house for dietary reasons, and donate it up the wazoo. There's WAY more than people want. So this isn't actually really valuable. [/quote]
Same with treats for troops and Girl Scout cookies donations. They were always stale by the time they got distributed. [/quote]

A service member told me they accept it because it makes people feel good to donate but much of it gets thrown away.[/quote]

When I was bored on deployment (Navy) I would sometimes dig into the boxes of letters that were periodically written to “any service member overseas.” We were in a location where internet access was not possible.

I would read these random letters for hours; some were funny, most were just nice, and many were heartbreaking. You would not believe the problems that some people struggled with for years, so when they wanted to write to “a troop” about hanging in there and staying safe (I was perfectly safe) they simply related their own accounts of perseverance.

It was like a window into Americana I’d never known.

And then the next letter in the box would be from an eight year old Cub Scout like “I hope you KILL the bad guys in the wor” with a picture of me shooting someone in the face and copious amounts of red Crayola illustrating the effects.

I loved them.

No candy, though. That was the last thing we needed. [/quote]

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