The Spirit of America drive is over and everybody can take their bow. We'll call it $50K. Thanks to all who donated.
Jim Hake of Spirit of America sent an email to everyone who donated which included this picture of him delivering the goods yesterday at Camp Pendelton. A breakdown of the equipment delivered can be found here. Smash files a report from Camp Pendelton and there should be more pictures here later today.
Victory Coalition member Gerard from American Digest has a sincere and moving account of his day there.
The purpose was to attend an event in which Spirit of America would turn over some of the video equipment they’d purchased as a result of their amazing fund-raising activities of the past month. The idea was to raise money to equip a few people in Iraq with the basic means of creating and broadcasting their own television. A kind of grass-roots antidote to Al-Jazerra, the project suddenly, with the help of big media’s Wall Street Journal columnist Daniel Henniger, took off. What began with a goal of $100,000 ended with a sum in the region of $1,500,000. As I write a loose coalition of bloggers is still plugging away hoping to add another $50,000 to the pot. As I drive into the entrance to Camp Pendleton, I’m thinking that this has to be one of those small miracles you read about but seldom get to witness. Why am I here? I’m not quite sure. I’m just doing what God put in front of me. Lately I’ve found that’s not a bad route to follow.
You must read the rest.
Dan Henninger's column today notes the overall success of the Spirit of America, not just the "Blogger Challenge".
The column describing Spirit of America's effort to raise $100,000 for the TV stations appeared in this space 14 days ago. Since then, the following has happened:Jim Hake, Spirit of America's entrepreneur founder, says they have received $1.52 million. Some 7,000 donations have come from every state, and one from . . . France.
Now, we're just waiting for Val to honor his commitment. (Don't mind my comments at Val's post, I was a little "off" last night.)
Thanks to Kevin & Michele for piloting the Victory Coaltion.
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