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Coffee For A Cause: November - Marine Toys For Tots
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Toys for Tots is run by the Marine Corps Reserve and was founded in 1947 by reservist Major Bill Hendricks after his wife Diane tried to donate a homemade Raggedy Ann doll to a needy child but couldn't find any organization to do so. At his wife's suggestion, he got together a group of local Marine Reservists and collected 5,000+ toys by placing bins outside movie theaters. It was so successful that Toys for Tots was launched nationwide the following year. As of 2016 Toys for Tots has collected and distributed more than 512 million toys. Their mission "is to collect new, unwrapped toys...
Coffee For A Cause: Operation Homefront
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This month Combat Coffee + Tea will be supporting Operation Homefront. Operation Homefront was formed in 2002, to support the families of deployed service members immediately following the events of Sept. 11, 2001. Since then the organization reports serving more than 14,000 families with over $20 million dollars in support. Operation Homefront focuses its efforts on relief, resiliency and recurring support for military and veteran families. It offers a variety of programs intended to achieve this goal including: Financial assistance for critical needs such as rent, utilities, and food assistance Transitional Housing Permanent Housing Recurring Support Operation Homefront is...
Coffee Drinkers Live Longer
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4 Cups a Day Lowers Mortality Rate by 64% Good news to all you coffee lovers. We all know that coffee is good for us and a recent study reconfirms it. This new study has shown that four cups of coffee a day can slash a persons chance of early death by almost two thirds. This is great news as it rewards you for doing something that you already enjoy; Drinking Delicious Combat Coffee! The research was done on 20,000 middle-aged men and women over an average of 10 years and found that those who drank coffee on a regular basis had mortality rates almost...
Introducing a new coffee from Guatemala... Candelaria
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We at Combat Coffee + Tea are proud to introduce a wonderful coffee from the Huehuetenango Region of Guatemala: Candelaria! Huehuetenango is located in the Western Highlands of northwest Guatemala, on the border with Mexico. It was already a Mayan settlement long before (AD 250-600) the Spanish conquest of the fortified city of Zaculeu in 1525. The area contains a number of Meso-american pyramids with slope and panel style architecture and double stairways. These pyramids and other governmental palaces are arranged around a series of large public plazas. There is also a ball court for playing the Meso-american ballgame thought to be similar to racquetball where the goal was to keep...
Folds of Honor is our August Charity!!!
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All of us here at Combat Coffee + Tea are honored to announce that Folds of Honor is our August Charity. As his flight landed, the pilot announced they carried the remains of Corporal Brock Bucklin on board, asking all passengers to respectfully remain seated while his casket deboarded. Major Rooney watched as Corporal Bucklin’s twin brother walked somberly alongside the flag-covered casket to meet his family. Among them was the deceased Corporal’s young son, Jacob. Major Rooney ached as he thought of his own wife and little girls. Seeing the other side of war through the eyes of Jacob,...