[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***Years ago I suspended my donations due to chaos in the Red Cross.***

My mom told a story of the Red Cross in WWII.
Every one in her town donated to the Red Cross, volunteered time for them and lived their lives around them as many people had sons in the war zones of the world.
One day a soldier wrote home telling them to stop supporting the R. C. Everyone in his outfit was upset because during the winter of 1945 on the battle lines the Red Cross came to the front with hot coffee and doughnuts---for the officers ONLY.

During my time in the military(1966-69) I met several people who had no use for the red cross. However, when we lost our home during the Tulsa Flood of 1976 the Red Cross did help us get new living quarters and gave us a matress and box springs.

[Dec31,1999]

I stopped donating to the Red Cross after the 9/11 fiasco, where they promided that all funds donated would go to the victims, but then they changed their minds and decided to put much of the money into the "general funds". Remember that?