“Soldier, you WILL donate to the Red Cross.”
Then it was not a donation, it was extortion. I would have said so, and maybe you did. When someone says I *WILL* do something, you can bet I probably WON’T.
Remember that this was in the ‘50’s and I was in the army. It would have taken somebody with a ot more guts than I had to call it extorion. - even though that’s what it was.