Coffee for the Troops

One of our best traditions here at Brown & Jenkins is to send coffee and other local goodies to our men and women who are stationed overseas in Afghanistan. If you read this coffee blog regularly then you are familiar with Glenn. He is our master roaster, and largely responsible for the high quality of the coffee beans that we offer.

Glenn is also the proud father of two beautiful daughters. One of his girls, Morgan, works locally as a school nurse caring for the children of our community. His other 24 year old, Ashley, has been stationed in Afghanistan and is on her third tour of duty. No matter your politics, as you can imagine, he is both proud of her and worries about her.

Inspired by Glenn's love and concern for Ashley, I decided that there needed to be a way for us to provide some sort of support for our troops overseas. Each year at Christmas we send a care package. Last year that included a Christmas tree, gourmet chocolates and sundries. For Thanksgivings and at other times of the year, we simply send Ashley a lot of gourmet Vermont coffee and she distributes it to her unit.

So again this year we will send gourmet coffee to the troops.

Tomorrow is Veteran's Day, and I can't think of a more appropriate time to thank all those people who support our country in so many ways. Some like Morgan do it here in the United States by protecting lives locally. Others, like Ashley, travel to a foreign country and put their lives at risk daily. I think both are heroes.Until our next cup,
Sandy Riggen