[at-l] War and Peace update

[nealb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (William Neal)]

The Red Cross is a great organization.  I was blessed by the Red Cross when
Hugo went through our area: I was in a Wally World and we later figured that
the store was directly under the center of the eye.  And one of my friends
lived off of Red Cross water and food for a few days. As to WW2, see my
other reply.  As to the 9/11 problem, apparently they dropped the ball.  The
only problem I heard of was when they shifted some of their money to other
programs because they had more money than they needed for 9/11 related
projects.  One person said they probably could have rebuilt the Twin Towers
and gold plated them with the excess money.  Which is an exaggeration, I am
sure.  But they did have more money than they really needed and they had
been heavily hit with some other "diasters".  So somebody, who was one brick
shy of a load, decided that they would downplay the shifting of the money
and allow people to "offer up a holocaust offering"* for their guilt.  If
there were other troubles, I do not know of any real biggies.

William, The Turtle

*	I remember reading an article where it was said that many people
(not most, just many) gave money at such times because of a sense of guilt.
Not that they caused the disaster, but because they were glad the disaster
did not happen to them.

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In a message dated 3/13/2003 8:38:18 PM Eastern Standard Time,
daveh@psknet.com writes:

> I had that happen with Red Cross, but not USO.  Different times different
> places.


To make this more off topic than it already is, I have to say that my one
and
only experience with the Red Cross was when a friend of mine had her house
burn down.  She lost everything.  Didn't even have a toothbrush.  They gave
her food, clothing a place to stay for a month and a toothbrush.  God knows
the panties weren't pretty, but at least they gave her a few pair.

Kelly