I’ve been meaning to blog this story all day, and have just had a hard time getting motivated today, I think I’m still coming down from the end of my first quarter as a grad student and graduate teaching assistant, so instead of getting this in a timely manner, an hour or so after it first “aired” a couple of hours before I got up, here it is at the end of the day. So sue me.
from Yahoo! News
by Associated PressSunday, December 13, 2009, 9:47 a.m. EST
BANGOR, Maine—Author Stephen King and his wife are donating money so 150 soldiers from the Maine Army National Guard can come home for the holidays.
King and his wife, Tabitha, who live in Bangor, are paying $13,000 toward the cost of two bus trips so that members of the 3rd Battalion, 172nd Infantry Unit can travel from Camp Atterbury in Indiana to Maine for Christmas. The soldiers left Maine last week for training at Camp Atterbury. They are scheduled to depart for Afghanistan in January.
Julie Eugley, one of King’s personal assistants, told the Bangor Daily News that the Kings were approached about giving $13,000.
But Stephen King though the number 13 was a bit unlucky, so the couple pitched in $12,999 instead. Eugley chipped in $1 to make for an even $13,000.
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