"Dave Hinz" wrote in message
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On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 14:56:51 -0500, * wrote:

Let's see......
They take your blood without compensation and sell it for .....how
much????

Right. Because they _force bleed_ people on the streets. Why, those
press gangs of wandering phlebotomists are a right menace, they are.
And of course, testing, storing, testing, delivery, and testing of the
blood supply doesn't cost a thing.

There are few - if any - ex-military people (especially WW II vets) who
have anything good to say about the way the Red Cross "helped" them.

ex-military here and I want nothing to do with the Red Cross. In a war-zone
I actually saw Red Cross packages for the enemy POWs nothing for the US
troops.

Had a friend while in the service have his brother die suddendly. Took Red
Cross 4 days to confirm the paper work to allow the Army to let him home.
Suppose to take 24 hours. Poor guy was so upset at the time they put him on
suicide watch.


Hm. We've had quite a few housefires where the families, and our
department, were helped out quite a bit during and after the fire.
By the Red Cross. Who also trains our EMTs... You know, EMTs? The
people you might need help from some day?

As a youngster had a house burn completely to the ground. Three people in
the hospital. No Red Cross to be found.

Care to share how much the Red Cross "charged" you for this training
service?

My dad was a POW in Stalag 17 for 19 months and received toilet paper -
not
food - from the Red Cross. He cursed them until the day he died. I would
feel very disrespectful to my father's memory if I gave money to the Red
Cross.

So, because the nazis may have picked through the packages before they
gave them to the POWs, ah, never mind. Obviously your mind is made u
Salvation Army

Red Cross packages are SEALED. They stole the whole package if anything.
Would of been obvious to his father if they were opened. Or do you make it
a sport to doubt veterans?? You should be thankful for his father's
service, or you might very well have a Nazi stealing from you as well.

Or how about my neighbor a WWII POW vet, who curses the Red Cross because
they mad him pay for the cigarettes they sent over. Should we doubt him
too?

Some of us just do our charitable deeds and don't see the need to crow
about them on the Internet.

So why does the Red Cross calling me telling all that they have "done".

You obivisiouly did not see the scandal that Bill O'Reily broke on TV,
shortly after all the 9/11 crap that the Red-Cross did.

Even worse they rode on the tails of 9/11 for a while begging people to give
blood. All the while they were chucking it at the same time because they
ran out of room, storage, testing, etc. Why? Because once they got you in
the door, they hit you up for money as well.