It is true that the Red Cross made nominal charges for coffee and doughnuts during WWII, but it did so at the request of the Army. Allied troops were being charged for snacks and the fact that American troops were paid so much more than the Brits was a constant source of friction, so the Army made the request. That has been a sore spot with vets ever since.
May we presume you’re speaking from experience, as you provided no source for your erudite response?
Otherwise, most of the words in your response match Snopes.com’s “rebuttal” to this.
Last time I checked, snopes.com put out more than 400 articles PER DAY in support of their god in the white hut. Why trust obamatons?
“It is true that the Red Cross made nominal charges for coffee and doughnuts during WWII, but it did so at the request of the Army. Allied troops were being charged for snacks and the fact that American troops were paid so much more than the Brits was a constant source of friction, so the Army made the request. That has been a sore spot with vets ever since.”
Cliff-noted the Hussein Heads at Snopes for us?
http://www.snopes.com/medical/emergent/redcross.asp
(Wonder how much federal taxes they pay)
” the fact that American troops were paid so much more than the Brits”
How much were they paid, anyway? When I first became aware of military pay scales, a private got paid virtually nothing.