When someone wins a free vacation, they can't wait to pack their bags and head on the complimentary adventure. Any child would be especially excited to win a trip to Disney World. One 9-year-old Massachusetts boy acted differently. He selflessly gave up not one, but two free vacations to Disney.
Brendan Haas spent three months trading his things to try to win a free Disney World vacation. He used Facebook to enter a project called "A Soldier for a Soldier" to try to win a week-long Disney trip.
On his Facebook page, he wrote "I am always trading toys with my friends and thought I would like to do my own project for a good cause. I am going to call it 'A Soldier for a Soldier.' I am going to start with one of my toy soldiers and hopefully continue to trade until I get a trip to Disney for a family of a fallen soldier. Once I reach my goal, I will hold a free raffle open to any immediate families of a fallen soldier and will randomly pick one lucky family."
Haas got the idea from 26-year-old Kyle MacDonald, who became an Internet sensation after trading a single red paperclip for a series of bigger items, eventually landing him a house.
Haas started with a toy soldier and reached his goal after trading up to receive an all-expenses paid trip to Disney. He put all the names of some military families into a hat and pulled out the name of 2-year-old Liberty Hope Steele, whose Army father was killed in Afghanistan last August. He gave the trip to her and her family.
As a reward for his good deed, the Disney affiliated ABC network decided to award the Haas family with a free trip of their own on 'Good Morning America.' Brendan was also named an "honorary citizen of Walt Disney World."
However, once again, Haas decided to give the trip away.
He told ABC We can't accept a trip to Disney but we have many more people who would like to have an all-expenses paid [trip] ...so we can do another raffle." He will choose another family from the original pool of military families.
Disney plans to upgrade the Steele's family vacation.
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