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Connecticut Cookie Brigade Launches Website
Volunteer Organization Sends Homemade Cookies to Troops and Veterans
| Source: Connecticut Cookie Brigade
DEEP RIVER, CT--(Marketwire - January 22, 2008) - The Connecticut Cookie Brigade (CCB), which
sends cookies to U.S. military personnel at home and abroad monthly, has
launched a website in support of its efforts. The site presents the CCB's
mission, details the ways in which people can volunteer or provide monetary
support, and contains letters and photos from military personnel and their
loved ones.
"I have two sons in the military," said Debra Schaefer, founder of the CCB,
"one of whom is in Afghanistan. In my fear and helplessness, I had a
choice: do nothing -- or make a difference in a very big, very scary world.
The CCB has taught us there are lots of families like ours in our
community. And communities grow every time you do a kind deed, every time
you extend your hand to another, every time you need help and have the
courage to ask for it."
The CCB site was created -- and will be hosted and maintained -- by O'Brien
Communications Group (OCG). According to OCG, it's a labor of love and a
gesture of gratitude and respect.
"What Debbie Schaefer has endured is heartbreaking," said Mark O'Brien,
OCG's principal. "What she's accomplished with the CCB is heartwarming and
inspirational. Donating a website is the least we can do for the
courageous troops who sacrifice daily for our freedom to make a living --
and for the generous spirits of Debbie and all of her volunteers and
supporters."
About the Connecticut Cookie Brigade
The CCB is a growing group of volunteers dedicated to the proposition that
soldiers presently serving, those who are recovering, and military veterans
need never be without reminders of home and the people who love them and
respect the job they do. The CCB is changing the world one soldier, one
caring volunteer, one cookie at a time. If you'd like to join the growing
CCB community, please visit www.connecticutcookiebrigade.com.
About O'Brien Communications Group
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and measures the effectiveness of brands, messages, and marketing
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