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Article: Sept. 11 changes sentiments, sales of Veterans Day cards.
- Article from:
- The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL
- Article date:
- November 6, 2002
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Hallmark Cards Inc. twice experimented with
selling Veterans Day cards, and twice decided the market wasn't
there. But that was before the Sept. 11 attacks, and before Keri
Olson made them a personal crusade.
Olson had wanted to get a card for her father, who fought in the
Vietnam War, last Veterans Day.
"I think with the events of Sept. 11, I began to understand all
that he had sacrificed. I really wanted to tell him," she said.
Employed by Hallmark at its Kansas City headquarters the last two
years, she knew they didn't make a specific card for that day. So she
chose one that simply expressed appreciation and on Nov. 11 gave it
to her father, who was in the Army and ...