Tex Jones, SASS 2263 Posted June 6, 2014 Share Posted June 6, 2014 According to the receptionist at the local dealership, today is National Donut Day at Dunkin Donuts. Didn't have a clue as to the significance of D Day. Thank goodness she's very cute. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 Posted June 6, 2014 Share Posted June 6, 2014 Disappointing, but you can't blame her - for either being cute, or for her educators having no sense of history. The educators, however, need a trip to the woodshed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted June 6, 2014 Share Posted June 6, 2014 Yep, US Marines started their assault on Hill 142, Belleau Wood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henry T Harrison Posted June 6, 2014 Share Posted June 6, 2014 What an insult to those 160,000 brave men. Couldn't Dunkin Doughnuts have found another day for such a silly thing on this day of days Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted June 6, 2014 Share Posted June 6, 2014 Well, I dunno. Doughnuts are pretty danged American. And ditto what Hardpan said! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caliope Cupcake #13981 Posted June 6, 2014 Share Posted June 6, 2014 yes indeedy--on 75 miles of French coastline, the greatest armada in the history of the world conquered the Nazi enemy in about 4 hours...losing nearly 4,000 US lives. they even built their own floating port to bring supplies and support for troops who had victory at the Battle of the Bulge.--changing the outcome of WWll. We will never forget those brave men... WATCH PBS TV http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/dday/ The American Experience: D-DAY http://www.pbs.org/search/amex/redir/http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/dday/sfeature/sf_voices.html VOICES OF D-DAY http://www.pbs.org/search/amex/redir/http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/bomb/peopleevents/pandeAMEX81.html RACE FOR THE SUPER BOMB NOW GO GET YER FREE DONUT AT DUNKIN DONUTS OR KRISPY KREME TODAY TO HONOR THE SALVATION ARMY AND ITS WOMEN WHO SERVED DOUGHNUTS AND COFFEE TO RETURNING TROUPS AT TRAIN AND BUS STATIONS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noz Posted June 7, 2014 Share Posted June 7, 2014 Walmart was passing them out as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruff Posted June 7, 2014 Share Posted June 7, 2014 Google National Donut Day. Started by the Salvation Army in 1938 on the first Friday of June to celebrate the men and women who servered donuts to the soldiers in WW 1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruff Posted June 7, 2014 Share Posted June 7, 2014 Www.donutdayusa.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Scatterbrain Posted June 7, 2014 Share Posted June 7, 2014 I have never heard of it before, but it seems to be inextricably linked to the military: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Donut_Day National Doughnut Day is on the first Friday of June each year, succeeding the Doughnut Day event created by The Salvation Army in 1938 to honor the men and women who served doughnuts to soldiers during World War I. National Doughnut Day started on June 7, 1938 when a young military doctor by the name of Morgan Pett was sent to a military base. On his way there he stopped at a bakery and picked up 8 dozen doughnuts. When he arrived at the base he started helping many wounded soldiers, and would give them a free doughnut. One man he helped was a Lieutenant General by the name of Samuel Geary. Samuel Geary greatly appreciated the help on his leg, and the doughnut (as he was a very comical man) so he decided to make a fund raiser with Morgan Pett to give every wounded soldier, and the needy a doughnut. This fund raiser was later joined with the Salvation Army. Soon after the US entrance into World War I in 1917, The Salvation Army sent a fact-finding mission to France. The mission concluded that the needs of US enlisted men could be met by canteens/social centers termed "huts" that could serve baked goods, provide writing supplies and stamps, and provide a clothes-mending service. Typically, six staff members per hut would include four female volunteers who could "mother" the boys. These huts were established by The Salvation Army in the United States near army training centers. About 250 Salvation Army volunteers went to France. Because of the difficulties of providing freshly baked goods from huts established in abandoned buildings near to the front lines, the two Salvation Army volunteers (Ensign Margaret Sheldon and Adjutant Helen Purviance) came up with the idea of providing doughnuts. These are reported to have been an "instant hit", and "soon many soldiers were visiting The Salvation Army huts". Margaret Sheldon wrote of one busy day: "Today I made 22 pies, 300 doughnuts, 700 cups of coffee." Soon, these workers became known by the servicemen as "Doughnut Dollies"... The birthday of the United States Marine Corps was once referred to as National Donut Day, in a successful ruse by American prisoners of war at Son Tay prison camp to trick the North Vietnamese into giving out donuts in honor of the occasion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted June 7, 2014 Share Posted June 7, 2014 Well, I missed out on the donuts. How did that happen? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted June 7, 2014 Share Posted June 7, 2014 Well, I missed out on the donuts. How did that happen? On KP again? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birdgun Quail, SASS #63663 Posted June 7, 2014 Share Posted June 7, 2014 Ah, the Donut Dollies! Bless them all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted June 7, 2014 Share Posted June 7, 2014 Well, an army does travel on it's stomach. Donuts make big stomachs. Kinda like a deuce and a half diner, with Michelin tires. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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