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Thanks for the ping and your post 178, TNT.

Dear Father in Heaven,

We ask that you will surround Gerald Santos and Rick Diaz with a very special prayer blanket woven with your healing, comfort, mercy, love, and protection. Wrap them with this swaddling garment to make them feel safe, loved, and cared for. Let them receive at a heart level and in their outer waking consciousness an understanding and a certitude that all will be well. And by thy grace, make it so. Let all be well with them.

Father, we cannot begin to repay these fine young men for the blood they have shed and the sacrifice of their perfect health for us and this nation. Father, please bless them abundantly, and let them and all who have made similar sacrifices be assured of the gratitude from us which they deserve.

Father, we understand that there have been instances where organizations who are supposed to tend to these warriors in our name have failed in their obligations. We ask that you will send legions of angels into those organizations and shake them up with your Light, shatter the matrices of dense thinking and bureaucratic red tape and guide them into a renewal of their original purpose. In the meantime, let those who are stepping up to the plate with caring hearts for these heroes be given the wherewithal and ability to minister to each and every one of them in need of the compassionate grateful hand. Let not a one of them fall through the cracks of our attention.

Father, raise awareness in our nation of the debt of gratitude we do owe these, our finest treasure. Open the hearts of our brothers and sisters throughout the nation and let them be moved to see to it that these and all our veterans are cared for and compensated justly.

We ask for and are expectantly grateful for your divine Will made manifest in this situation.

Amen

...We ask that you will send legions of angels into those organizations and shake
them up with your Light, shatter the matrices of dense thinking and bureaucratic
red tape and guide them into a renewal of their original purpose. ...

TEXOKIE,
while I give a hearty Amen to all you said in your prayer, it appears that
we should add in a bit more for The Red Cross, given their "United Way"-esque weasely
words and actions.

I fear that only when a legion of lawyers and fraud investigators (as in The
Red Cross' breaking of contracts, verbal and/or implied, to donors) show up at their
headquarters and their banking institutions with some big fat subpoenas.
I'm afraid that a few "perp walks" is about the only thing that would bring
The Red Cross back onto the straight and narrow.

Given some of the INCREDIBLE duplicity of chapters of The Red Cross here in
California (especially the San Diego chapter), I almost despair about the
organization so much that I think my charitable dollar would more likely reach
people in need if I just threw it out the window, as opposed to writing The Red Cross
a check.

Sad, sad, sad.
For me, the final straw with The Red Cross was when Dr. Bernadette Healy quit after
trying to fix the organization.