A Surprising Ingredient in Can of Spam - Love From Home
Don Downer has sent over 1,400 care packages to U.S. troops serving abroad. He makes sure every one of them gets a can of Spam.
This story, previously published on Columbia Patch, has been selected as today's Greatest Person of the Day feature on the Huffington Post. For other Greatest Person features, see the Huffington Post page. Receiving a package from home loaded with treats when you’re thousands of miles away can mean a lot to a soldier, especially if it contains good old American Spam -- the kind you eat, not the kind you delete. Don Downer, 82, known as the "Spam czar," has sent more than 1,400 such packages to U.S. troops deployed overseas. He was honored recently at Howard County’s Volunteer of the Year award ceremony as a result. “It only seemed fitting for all he has done to support our country's soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines,” said county …
Lisa Rossi
12:40 pm on Monday, November 28, 2011
Agreed! Downer is 82 and has spent $50,000 of his own money on these care packages for soldiers. more ›