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To: rightwingintelligentsia

My late father was a WWII veteran - he and many of his friends from the same era despised the Red Cross.


39 posted on 12/16/2010 1:56:21 PM PST by dainbramaged (If you want a friend, get a pit bull.)
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To: dainbramaged

***My late father was a WWII veteran - he and many of his friends from the same era despised the Red Cross.***

My mom said the same thing about them during WWII.

They worked their butts off knitting socks and donoating to the RC. Then word came back from the soldiers that much of the stuff was going to behind the lines officers and when a RC person brought doughnuts to the front line infantry, each soldier received 1/4 of a doughnut.


61 posted on 12/16/2010 2:52:45 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (I visited GEN TOMMY FRANKS Military Museum in HOBART, OKLAHOMA! Well worth it!)
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That is very true.

My dad says they used to make them pay for the coffee and donuts -- while the Sally Anns gave it out for free.

62 posted on 12/16/2010 2:53:49 PM PST by AnAmericanMother (Ministrix of ye Chasse, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
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