Randy Rasmussen/The Oregonian reports: Julie Keith, a 42-year-old vehicle donation
manager at a southeast Portland Goodwill, at one point considered donating the
unopened $29.99 Kmart graveyard kit. It was one of those accumulated items you
never need and easily forget. But on a Sunday afternoon in October, Keith
pulled the orange and black box from storage. She intended to decorate her home
in Damascus for her daughter's fifth birthday, just days before Halloween. She ripped open the box and threw aside the
cellophane. That's when Keith found it.
Scribbled onto paper and folded into eighths, the letter was tucked between two
Styrofoam headstones:
The letter describes conditions at a forced labor camp in
China.
"If you
occasionally buy this product, please kindly resend this letter to the World
Human Right Organization. Thousands people here who are under the persicution
of the Chinese Communist Party Government will thank and remember you
forever."
The graveyard kit, the letter read, was made in unit 8,
department 2 of the Masanjia Labor Camp in Shenyang, China….
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