[at-l] War and Peace update

[nealb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (William Neal)]

Part of that has to do with a WW2 miscommunication from the bigwigs and the
legends still roll on.  Like the troubles with Denny's -- even the good
ones.

Apparently, other countries did not have the spirit of giving that the US
did.  What Americans gave freely to their soldiers, some nations charged for
or did without.  So the American bigwigs decided to make things more equal
for the sakes of our comrades-in-arms.  My ex-father-in-law mentioned that
he had to pay for his donuts and coffee (this was at some naval facility
that also had foreign soldiers/sailors).*  But it was because the USO and
Red Cross had been ordered to charge our soldiers as well as our allies.
And apparently similar things happened in other places.  It was not the
USO's or Red Cross' fault .  It was the fault of some middle-management
military bigwig, and the allergy of the military to change anything once it
was in place.

Since then the USO and Red Cross has a bad rep with some military minds.
Even though it apparently was the fault of military thinking and SOP.

William, The Turtle.

*	I would guess that this was so the USO or Red Cross could provide
services to our soldiers and our allies without hurting our allies feelings.
-----Original Message-----
From: J Bryan Kramer [mailto:jbryankramer@msn.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 6:08 PM
To: Christopher McNabb; KellyGoVols@aol.com
Cc: at-l@mailman.backcountry.net
Subject: RE: [at-l] War and Peace update


If you send it via the USO the recipients will probably end up paying for
your donations. I've never met any one in the military with anything good to
say about either the USO or Red Cross.

Bryan

"Si vis pacem para bellum"

>
> On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 21:55, KellyGoVols@aol.com wrote:
> > I've yet to find an address to send said "junk" to, but I'll
> keep looking.
> >
> > Kelly
> >
>
> As a Veteran, I would suggest contacting your local chapter of the
> American Red Cross of USO.  Both are usual routes for sending things
> like these to our service men/woman.
>
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