Sour Mash Whiskey Helping to Send Soldiers Home for the Holidays

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636_Jack_Daniels_AP_fileWith all of the gloom and doom bad news that I usually write about, I couldn’t help but take the opportunity to write about something positive for a change.

Jack Daniels Distilleries has announced that they are donating over $100,000 to help pay for the air fare and other travel expenses for soldiers at Fort Campbell, Kentucky to spend the Christmas holiday with their families.  The company’s donations were made through the Operation Ride Home campaign.

Fort Campbell is the home of the 101st Airborne Division which recently returned after serving a year in Afghanistan.  Realizing that many of the battle worn soldiers were financially unable to afford to fly to their homes for the holiday, Jack Daniels donated $101,000 to Operation Ride Home in honor of the Division’s name.

Joining Jack Daniels is country music star Craig Morgan who just happens to be a veteran from the 101st Airborne.  Morgan has recorded a video to help encourage others to donate to the cause.  The video can be viewed and the Jack Daniels’ website.

Jack Daniels Operation Ride Home is accepting donations through December 16.  I would hope and pray that some of you out there would realize how much we owe these men and women who lay their lives on the line for freedom and will go to the link provided above and donate so that they may be able to spend the Christmas holiday with their families.

Thank you.

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  • 1599

    What's positive about that. Is jack Daniels donating anything to the victims it kills on the highways each year, or the alcoholics hooked on their products? Is this a Christian based site or not?

    • Mike

      Oh, Puleeeze. Jack Daniels distilleries killed no one. People choose to drink & a few idiots then think they can drive with tunnel vision. Many, many more INTELLIGENT people don't.

    • Steve

      Blaming a manufacturer or a product instead of personal responsibility is one of the problems of political correctness. McDonalds and spoons don't make people fat; it's knowing how much to eat and what is healthy. Cars don't kill people; it's careless drivers. Guns don't kill people, it's criminals who use guns illegally or people who fail to lock up their weapons. If you disagree with alcohol, and prefer not to drink, then that's your choice. Let's just agree that Jack Daniels is doing a good thing to show their support to the military.

      • Chucksters

        And it is not necessarily the drinking driver who causes wrecks and death. I have driven millions of miles in my lifetime. I’m over 60 now. I have been driving with a beer in my lap since I was 16. Never had an accident or caused one.
        But there are plenty of stupid drivers out on the roads, drunk, high or sober who can’t seem to get anywhere without causing wreaks, road rage or even death. Mothers Against Drunk Drivers competely missed the mark. As far as I’m concerned the MADD idiots are nothing more than looney prohibitionists. Instead of DUI/DWI laws, there should be laws against stupid drivers.

    • URKiddinMee

      using your logic, we should HANG the manufacturer of Obozo'z teleprompter!

  • Mayflower Decendent

    Wrong… Playing the blame game makes you look like an idiot. Jack Daniels didn't make anyone get behind the wheel of a vehicle. That would be the fault of the person responsible for the over consumption! And neither do they force people to drink their product. It's the drunks that kill not the drink! And, I am a responsible person that if I've had a drink I don't drive. Others don't feel that way.

    • 1599

      Try selling that to the victims who were killed by the consumers of these products. These products are sold on the idea that they are pleasurable. I'm glad that you are a responsible drinker.

      • MIke

        There are lots of responsible drinkers. At least you almost got it right this time. The dead & injured, if they're victims at all, are victims of idiots who drink & drive. They're not victims of Jack Daniels. People who drink to the point of stupidity & then drive are not representative of people who drink. There's nothing wrong or sinful with drinking. It's the limits & bad decisions that some carry it to that is the problem. And that won't be solved by casting blame indiscriminately.

        • 1599

          That's OK. Jack Daniels doesn't mind taking the profits from thise individuals, and there are a lot of them, and then doling a pentence to try to make itself look good by exploiting servicemen.

          • wncchester

            "… try to make itself look good by exploiting servicemen. "

            That's blatant self righteous sillyness; which of those servicemen who will make it home would not wish to be 'expoited' even more? And who have YOU helped get home — or anything else? I wish someone had felt like helping me get home for Christmas when I served. Best I ever got was an invite to dinner with some nice family at my off-base church, and not always that. So, maybe it's time for you to grow up a bit sir.

            I'm a 71 year old Christian who sipped an occasional splash of Black Jack over ice in my youth but haven't had a drop now for more than half my life, just to present no cause for offense to those of my spiritually 'weaker' brothers who automatically presume everyone who drinks is a drunkard or killer behind the wheel. I condem the harmful acts of the offenders and refuse to allow anyone to shift the blame to say, in effect, "The Devil and Jack Daniel's made me do it."

  • Mayflower Decendent

    The consumers of the product are the one's responsible. Just like a gun won't shoot a bullet unless someone pulls the trigger! Do you blame the gun also? I don't.. People need to be held accountable for their own actions. To put the blame elsewhere doesn't do any good at all.
    As for me drinking… Not very often.. I haven't had a drink in over a year, but when I do I stay home.

    • 1599

      A lot of drunks have used guns irresponsibly. There are just too many people who do not use the product as yourself and they are making Jack Daniels a lot of money. The Jack Daniels do not care how many homes have been broken up, or kids who did without, or the health problems associated with the use of their products. As long as the money keeps coming in.

  • mostlygood

    If I find writing with pencils pleasurable and someone else finds stabbing people with pencils pleasurable, does that mean we should ban pencils because someone chooses to misuse pencils? I don't think so. People have free will…bad choices and bad decisions promote bad outcomes. Choosing to drive under the influence is the problem. The choice to not drive under the influence must be made while one is still sober, else the intoxicated person will drive under the delusion that
    he/she is totally capable of driving. Hopefully that's where friends intervene.

    • 1599

      It they are stabbing because they are under the influence it would be wise to ban the alcohol.

  • Doha debates

    I recommend a visit to the debates

    We do not hear or see this on our news
    http://www.dohadebates.com/debates/debate.asp?d=4…

    the podcast you can listen to
    http://media.sc-streaming.com/flv/553/DE2110D2-B7…

  • mickrussom

    The communists tried to tax Jack Daniels 5 million
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/foodanddr…

    The radical leftist scum progressive Demon-Cats, the agents of Satan, dont believe in the equal protection of laws. Some are more equal than others, as in, anyone or any business with money must pay more.

    • 1599

      Alcohol is the Devil's brew. Satan has done a lot of harm using the stuff

      • mickrussom

        Yes, but the communists, progressives and socialists are the agents of Satan. When they single out a business which operates within the law, they must be stopped. Being sin free is a choice, accepting Christ is a choice, and without this choice we are slaves to atheist and Satanic police states like the USSR and China.

      • Lee J

        Are you saying that when Christ drank wine, he was drinking the Devil's brew and sinning? In the same sections of Scripture that warn about drinking too much, it also warns about gluttony. Using your logic, food would also be of the Devil and we should ban food.

        • 1599

          Jack Daniels is not wine

  • Jim

    I Salute my Brothers-in-arms in the 101st. Been There, done that YEARS ago! First Strike 502nd!

  • David T

    If we are to blame alcohol for drunk driving, then we also have to look at other responsible parties. Let's blame the auto manufacturer. Without the cars, the drunk wouldn't have been driving. Let's blame the DOT. Without roads, the drunk would have no place to drive. Let's blame the farmers. Without the corn, there would be no whiskey.

    It is well beyond time for people to be responsible for their actions and quit look for others to blame. The whiskey didn't kill anybody, it was the drunk. The gun has killed nobody, it was the shooter.

    • 1599

      Your argument simply does not stand up

      • Mark

        I was hit by a car and the driver was completely sober. I guess i need to sue FORD. Maybe we can ban them too.

        • 1599

          Accidents do happen. Driving drunk or any other activity/neglect under the influence of strong drink is no accident

  • http://www.brandedmojo.com JDMerch22

    Really cool that Jack Daniel's is doing this… Do you think the soldiers get shots on the way back home????