Toys For Tots Quotes

...Right now there's a pair of bad cops on their way out here to shoot me." "You don't know that." "Yeah, you're right," Stranahan said. "They're probably just collecting Toys for Tots. Now go.

Death conditioning begins at eighteen months. Every tot spends two mornings a week in a month in a Hospital for the Dying. All the best toys are kept there, and they get chocolate cream on death days. They learn to take dying as a matter of course.

Dan Corrieri trained in engineering graphics, statistical process control, accounting manufacturing methods, finance, management, engineering economy, marketing, design processes in technology and engineering mechanics. Daniel Corrieri was a veteran of the United States Marine Corps Reserves with an honorable discharge. In addition, Daniel Corrieri has gained plenty of volunteer experience with Toys for Tots through the Marine Corps, community service for the American Cancer Society, church service and other excellent opportunities.

There were two types of military wives, in Miriam’s opinion—those who supported their husbands and those who thought they, too, were Marines. Brooke was squarely in the latter set. Attended every officer’s wife function—high teas and luncheons and charity drives and golf outings. She ran the Camp Lejeune Toys for Tots Christmas program as if she were Britain’s prime minister during the war. Miriam thought her the most entitled white women she had met—uninteresting, her life so intertwined with that of her husband’s that she was no longer distinguishable as a woman.

DECEMBER 19, 2013, Washington, D.C. Mrs. Obama greets service members after a Toys for Tots event.

That summer, Harrison Miller and Bezos butted heads in front of the board of directors over the size of the bet on toys. Bezos wanted Miller to plow $120 million into stocking every possible toy, from Barbie dolls to rare German-made wooden trains to cheap plastic beach pails, so that kids and parents would never be disappointed when they searched for an item on Amazon. But a prescient Miller, sensing disaster ahead, pushed to lower his own buy. “No! No! A hundred and twenty million!” Bezos yelled. “I want it all. If I have to, I will drive it to the landfill myself!” “Jeff, you drive a Honda Accord,” Joy Covey pointed out. “That’s going to be a lot of trips.” Bezos prevailed. And the company would make a sizable contribution to Toys for Tots after the holidays that year. “That first holiday season was the best of times and the worst of times,” Miller says. “The store was great for customers and we made our revenue goals, which were big, but other than that everything that could go wrong did. In the aftermath we were sitting on fifty million dollars of toy inventory. I had guys going down the back stairs with ‘Vinnie’ in New York, selling Digimons off to Mexico at twenty cents on the dollar. You just had to get rid of them, fast.” The electronics effort faced even greater challenges. To launch that category, David Risher tapped a Dartmouth alum named Chris Payne who had previously worked on Amazon’s DVD store. Like Miller, Payne had to plead with suppliers—in this case, Asian consumer-electronics companies like Sony, Toshiba, and Samsung. He quickly hit a wall. The Japanese electronics

Death conditioning begins at eighteen months. Every tot spends two mornings a week in a Hospital for the Dying. All the best toys are kept there, and they get chocolate cream on death days. They learn to take dying as a matter of course. / El condicionamiento ante la muerte empieza a los dieciocho meses. Todo crío pasa dos mañanas cada semana en un Hospital de Moribundos. En estos hospitales encuentran los mejores juguetes, y se les obsequia con helado de chocolate los días que hay defunción. Así aprenden a aceptar la muerte como algo completamente corriente.

A Revolutionary Act A hug, a moment of embrace; once an ordinary thing, now an act of revolution. See her smile there! The mask of shame lifted; teeth, shining bright against the gold of the sun; it's rays of love wrap the skin as if to say, "it's okay." A touch has become a weapon. The evil use it against us, as they label us dirty and contaminated. Uncover and breathe the free air again! I set the captive free from demonic chains that bound the humblest of folk~ confined no more by their black cloak. We run through green meadows, lined with blue and purple violets and daisies. Children laugh and throw toys about like the free-spirited tots they are. The lowly, lifted up upon our barter of silver and gold; hungry no more. The psychopath, brought down by the wolves; hunted, as the masses grow weary. Tired of their lies and raunchy alibis they ready themselves to strike at the polls. No more will they accept their false claims that we are a danger to ourselves and others. No more shaming the unmasked; we will live free or die fighting!