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jsw14
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Water, Donated by Budweiser for the troops in Desert Storm in 1997... Who knows, maybe this can was never shipped.... Not that old but it has history! Thanks for lookin!
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I have one just like it from 1993. Donated to flood victims in Des Moines, IA.
Never seen these before, cool! If it was '97 it was about six years after Desert Storm though.
Hmmmmm, U are right Viking.... Desert Storm 1991.....Don't know what I was thinkin of...Sheeeesh. Now I'm confuesed!!!!
Apparently it was for Hurricane victims in Florida.
Well, it will get their one of these days. cause if we ever sell our house, thats where we want to move too! Haaaaaahaaa....
lol good deal.
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for some reason my dad has a 6 pack of those. its an odd piece but they are cool
jsw14 I live in Homestead Fla. I never saw one of these during Andrew (the big bad boy) anyway not sure of other areas but we had southern bell give out water in their cans. Funny though a friend from sebring had to bring our family water because we didn't get any, only funny because I worked for Bell then.
Thanks Sharon....Sounds about right,. cause the Co that U work for will ask U for goods when times are bad for somebody else, but when your in need, We always have friends we can count on...... "The South Will Survive"
After the tornadoes blasted through AL-TN, Budweiser donated a whole truck load of these to the linemen working the storm.
i have some of these from when hurricane hugo hit us in south carolina in 1989 or so-they gave them out-very good clean tasting water-i saved a few.
do u know why my name dosent show as a link to my page??
http://www.collectorsweekly.com/user/jeannie
It just does that every once in a while. Its showing up now