The Salvation Army's 110-year-old gambit of giving American soldiers in the First World War a 'taste of home' helped fuel this nation's obsession with the circular pastry, its national leader said.
Donuts sparked Salvation Army’s service to military for 110 years, national leader saysThe Salvation Army’s 110-year-old gambit of giving American soldiers in World War I a “taste of home” helped fuel this nation’s obsession with the circular pastry, its national leader said.
Twenty years after the war ended, Salvation Army boosters in Chicago celebrated the first “National Donut Day” on June 7, one day after the 80th anniversary of the World War II Normandy invasion. He said the “lassies” had no military training but would lead worship services, comfort the wounded, and help soldiers write letters back home, even reading missives to those who couldn’t read.“He mentored Patton, MacArthur, Marshall and Eisenhower, all to love The Salvation Army,” he said. “As we remember, D-Day, our minds go back to Eisenhower, who is shown in a number of pictures eating a Salvation Army doughnut during World War Two.
The group continues its ministry to the U.S. military and families through associations with the Department of Defense and the Boys and Girls Clubs of America, which provides extensive youth programming at military installations.
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