Well, my folks told me about how the RC never passed the news to my dad when us kids were born (they were supposed to do that). But what always made my dad and his fellow vets the angriest was how RC would collect money to provide food & coffee for the men, and instead, would sell it to them.
I still remember the stories at meetings from many men of how they would be handed a donut and coffee by one RC volunteer, and be told how much they were to pay by another. And, if they did not pay up, it would be grabbed away from them.
Everyone I heard from had stories about how the RC was a phony charity. Salvation Army and USO were the only ones anyone said good about.
I bet we could get a huge thread going with horror stories about the RC -- not just during wartime, but during disasters here at home. Ask survivors of hurricane Andrew...heck, volunteers from the Mennonite Central Committee did more, faster, and without charge -- and they got no mention in the newspapers. But then, the MCC did not do it for publicity. (Gee, I can't believe I am saying good things about MCC, considering the general leftist bent of many of their leaders.)