Bunny In The Foxhole
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
This is a wisconson based company
Below is an email exchange between a friend of mine's husband and a company that sells different types of mats. He is stationed in Iraq and was inquiring as to whether or not the company ships overseas. He wanted to get the troops better gear to sleep on.This is the companies response. I am floored. I am floored as a military wife and as an American. Please repost this so that this company will hear us loud and clear that we do not stand for this. Whatever your view is on this war - these troops are just following orders. Most are passionate about what they are doing. You can disagree with the war without disrespecting our troops.
COMPANY CONTACT INFO:
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> e-mail us at: contact @ discount-mats. com
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> Reach us by phone, please call us between 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. central
> time: 414-736-8394
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> Mailing address:
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> Bargain Suppliers
> 3259 S.106th Street > West Allis, WI 53227
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> WEBSITE INFO:
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> Registrant:
> Faisal Khetani
> PO Box 270693
> Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53227 > United States
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> Registered through: Teknon Domains
> Domain Name: DISCOUNT-MATS. COM
> Created on: 23-Mar-05
> Expires on: 23-Mar-08
> Last Updated on: 03-Mar-06
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> Administrative Contact:
> Khetani, Faisal sportsfitness@ ...
> 3259 S.106th Street > West Allis, Wisconsin 53227 > United States
> (414) 543-9634
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> Technical Contact:
> Khetani, Faisal sportsfitness@ ...
> 3259 S.106th Street > West Allis, Wisconsin 53227 > United States
> (414) 543-9634
On Tue Jan 16 3:25 , contact@... sent:
To Whom it may concern:
Do you ship to APO addresses? I'm in the 1st Cavalry Division
stationed in Iraq and we are trying to order some mats but we are
looking for who ships to APO first.
SGT Hess
From: contact@... [mailto:contact@ ...]
Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 9:44 PM
Subject: Re: Feedback: from discount-mats. com
SGT Hess,
We do not ship to APO addresses, and even if we did, we would NEVER
ship to Iraq. If you were sensible, you and your troops would pull out of Iraq.
> Bargain Suppliers
> Discount-Mats.com
And the end result is here...
From: VortexControl
Date: Jan 23, 2007 6:24 AM
I just want to say thank you to all of you that read this bulletin and passed it on. Today the guy who responded to Sgt, Hess via email was fired and Sgt. Hess emailed that two other companies have stepped up to the plate. You can make a difference never think for one second that one person can never make a difference. Today a difference was made for the best and you were apart of it. Thank you.
Story
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,245718,00.html
video
http://www.foxnews.com/video2/player06.html?012207/012207_gibson_mats&Big_Story&Request%20Denied&acc&US&-1&News&194&&&new
Here is the Fox story,copied from the above link..
Web Site Kicks Sand in Faces of GIs in Iraq Asking for Mats to Ease Hardship of Sleeping on Ground
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
An American GI assigned to one of the harshest posts in Iraq had a simple request last week for a Wisconsin mattress company: send some floor mats to help ease the hardship of sleeping on the cold, bug-infested ground.
What he got, instead, was a swift kick from the company's Web site, which not only refused the request but added insult to injury with the admonition, "If you were sensible, you and your troops would pull out of Iraq."
Army Sgt. Jason Hess, stationed in Taji, Iraq, with the 1st Cavalry Division, said he emailed his request to Discount-mats.com because he and his fellow soldiers sleep on the cold ground, which contains sand mites, sand flies and other disease carriers.
In his email, dated Jan. 16, 2007, he asked the Web-based company, registered to Faisal Khetani, an American Muslim of Pakistani descent:
"Do you ship to APO (military) addresses? I'm in the 1st Cavalry Division stationed in Iraq and we are trying to order some mats but we are looking for ships to APO first."
On the same day, Hess received this reply:
"SGT Hess,
We do not ship to APO addresses, and even if we did, we would NEVER ship to Iraq. If you were sensible, you and your troops would pull out of Iraq. Bargain Suppliers Khetani on Monday told FOX News that the person responsible for the email reply had been fired. The Web site, meanwhile, has been temporarily taken down. Hess emailed that he has since found two mat suppliers willing to ship to an APO address in Iraq.
Discount-Mats.com"
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