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Boy, 9, gives away Disney World trip to family of fallen soldier [View all]
Boy, 9, gives away Disney World trip to family of fallen soldier
http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/05/29/11942205-boy-9-gives-away-disney-world-trip-to-family-of-fallen-soldier
By Jeff Black, msnbc.com
Brendan Haas earned a prize any young kid would appreciate — an all-expenses paid trip to Disney World. Instead of going, though, the Massachusetts boy gave the vacation to the family of a soldier killed in Afghanistan.
Haas earned the trip through a trading contest on Facebook he set up to help out a military family. He got the idea from the story of a man who traded up from a red paper clip to a house.
In February, Brendan and his mother Melissa set up the "Soldier for a Soldier" Facebook page in an attempt to trade up from a toy soldier to a Disney trip.
Through a series of trades on the social network site, he managed to amass Disney gift certificates worth almost $900 as well as airfare and a stay at a Disney resort hotel.
http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/05/29/11942205-boy-9-gives-away-disney-world-trip-to-family-of-fallen-soldier
By Jeff Black, msnbc.com
Brendan Haas earned a prize any young kid would appreciate — an all-expenses paid trip to Disney World. Instead of going, though, the Massachusetts boy gave the vacation to the family of a soldier killed in Afghanistan.
Haas earned the trip through a trading contest on Facebook he set up to help out a military family. He got the idea from the story of a man who traded up from a red paper clip to a house.
In February, Brendan and his mother Melissa set up the "Soldier for a Soldier" Facebook page in an attempt to trade up from a toy soldier to a Disney trip.
Through a series of trades on the social network site, he managed to amass Disney gift certificates worth almost $900 as well as airfare and a stay at a Disney resort hotel.
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