Re: Attitudes toward Korean War

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ChosinMeade@aol.com wrote:

<<To this day, I have never and will never donate one red cent to 
the Red Cross. The only Organization that ever did any thing for us (without 
wanting something in return) was the Salvation Army-They get all my donations.
>>

Others have mentioned similar experiences in the Second World War, but it 
goes back even further than that.  William Manchester writes in his World War 
II memoir, "Goodbye, Darkness," that when his father, also a Marine, was 
seriously wounded in the First World War, the Red Cross representatives in 
the hospital tried to sell cigarettes to him.  He, too, finally got them for 
free from the Salvation Army, and for the rest of his life made a point of 
throwing money into their donation buckets, while spurning the Red Cross.  I 
am not a regular reader of Ann Landers by any means, but I believe this issue 
is a recurring one in her column as well.

     Regards,
     Keith Allen