B.E.S.T. Chair and SFTT Foundation Advisory Board Director Shelly Tretter Lynch (Greenwich) takes a Stand For The Troops at Saks Fifth Avenue in Greenwich
Saks Fifth Avenue in Greenwich and the B.E.S.T Committee for SFFT Foundation (www.sftt.org) announce an April in Paris evening that will help people look their best while doing good this spring. On Wednesday, April 6, at 6:30 PM, Saks Fifth Avenue and B.E.S.T. (Best Equipment and Support for our Troops) for SFTT Foundation invite the public to join them in Greenwich for an evening of French style. The special after-hours event will include complimentary makeovers, a special fashion show and live and silent auctions with French flair, at Saks Fifth Avenue, 205 Greenwich Avenue, Greenwich, CT.
The B.E.S.T. April in Paris event will benefit Greenwich, CT-based SFTT’s unique educational and advocacy work: to see that the Pentagon and our elected leaders in Washington get the right personal equipment, support and treatment for our country’s warriors, by giving a public voice to and providing a candid forum for America’s front-line troops. Unlike the many wonderful organizations working to help returned soldiers, marines and other veterans, only SFTT is single-mindedly focused on preventive action—getting the Best available Equipment and Support for the Troops before and during their deployment, and giving these courageous men and women a fighting chance of making it home alive and well in body and mind.
Tickets are $50. Proceeds from ticket sales, the live and silent auction, and a portion of Saks sales that evening will help keep SFTT’s unique mission in the forefront as the voice and advocate for America’s front-line troops. SFTT is a non-partisan, apolitical 501(c)3 educational foundation that relies on funding from individuals, private foundations and volunteer-driven B.E.S.T. committee events. To attend the April 6 event at Saks and support SFTT’s B.E.S.T. work, phone 203-629-0288, email sfttgrunt@optonline.net, or reserve online at www.sftt.org/events.
ABOUT SFTT Foundation:
SFTT was founded by Col. David Hackworth and Eilhys England Hackworth to educate our country's citizens on the need to give a voice to our serving sons and daughters and to demand that they receive: Equipment superior to the best an enemy can employ against them; Training that fully prepares them to succeed in all assigned missions; Leadership dedicated to selfless service and the timeless values of duty, honor, and country. Through news breaking reporting on our website www.SFTT.org, which is regularly monitored and sought out by major media, SFTT has been instrumental in shining the bright light of public scrutiny on injustices from substandard body armor and other pieces of critical personal combat gear to anthrax vaccines to Abu Ghraib.
SFTT has been the source, credited and noted for recent front page articles and news segments in the New York Times and the Washington Post, Washington Times, 60 Minutes, NBC, CNN and other national broadcast news programs.
In spring 2009, an SFTT collaborative project with The Washington Times earned a Sigma Delta Chi Award for public service from the Society for Professional Journalists for the series of articles, "Disposable Heroes." It exposed the unethical treatment of vulnerable veterans of Iraq and other frontline duty during a Veterans Affairs medical experiment and resulted in a congressional hearing and major changes to the way the Dept. of Veterans' Affairs will conduct future medical experiments on America's veterans.
SFTT is a nonpartisan, apolitical 501(c)3 organization that is supported by donations from concerned individuals. More information can be found on the foundation website: www.SFTT.org.
