12/22/08 Beef for the brave

The holiday season is the perfect time to share heart warming stories. I'm Jeff Keane and I'll be back after a quick break to tell you about Beef for the Brave. While we gather together this week to celebrate Christmas, it is easy to forget the ongoing sacrifices of the United States military. Many brave men and women will be spending their holidays in foreign countries or hospital beds. The folks at Pfizer Animal Health developed a fantastic program to thank our armed services this past year called Beef for The Brave. Here's Susan Allen to tell you more about it. Jeff, on one occasion Pfizer Animal Health team lead by the Draxxin marketing manager Dave Korbelik served steaks to over fifteen hundred wounded solders and their families at the Walter Reed Medical Center. Cattlemen contributed to this venture each time they used the product DRAXXIN to fight cattle pneumonia, as a portion of each sale purchased over fifteen thousand steaks that were served on military bases and overseas this past year .The neat part was that our ranchers, dariymen and PFIZER employees volunteered at the events held in San Antonio, Atlanta and Georgia. Juicy Steaks became warm thank yous from our nations cattlemen's to America's military. And Susan, Americans' ranchers and the folks at Pfizer were awed and humbled by the patriotic spirit, and morale of the troops they served. I'm Jeff Keane wishing all of you a very Merry Christmas.