I recently discovered that a woman, Brenda Smith, who is in the same office suite as The Personal Branding Group (she works for a different company than ours ) has a son serving in Iraq as a medic. His name is Paul.
Through Brenda I struck up an email relationship with Paul. I asked Paul if there was anything he and his fellow soldiers needed or would like more of. Paul responded, "...magazines and DVD's..." So, in an effort to do or part we rallied our clients asking them to send three to five DVDs to our office by October 31st. We would then take care of the shipping arrangements.
I'm proud to say we had a great response, but one little girl in particular stole the show, Emily Waite, who is 13 years old and is in the 8th grade at Palos Verdes Intermediate School.
Emily is the daughter of one of my clients, David Waite. David is a lawyer at Jeffer Mangels in Century City, CA. David shared our email request with Emily and like a duck on a june bug Emily went to work. She sent our email along with her own email rallying her classmates into action. 13 year old Emily collected more than 60 DVD's for the troops!
I guess what they say is true, "If you need a job done get an 8th grader on it!" On behalf of Pfc Paul Smith and his fellow soldiers, thank you Emily Waite for your thoughtfulness. You are a true patriot.
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