Posted on 10/30/2012 3:47:47 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
The Spiritual Works of Mercy [Catholic Caucus]
The Corporal Works of Mercy [Catholic Caucus]
Lists Every Catholic Should be Familiar With: The 7 Spiritual Works of Mercy
Lists Every Catholic Should be Familiar With: The 7 Corporal Works of Mercy
Catholic Caucus: Spiritual Works of Mercy
Introduction to the Corporal and Spiritual Works of Mercy
The Spiritual Works of Mercy
The Corporal Works of Mercy
Lest We Forget - The Corporal Works of Mercy & The Spirtual Works of Mercy
Corporal and Spiritual Works of Mercy
The Red Cross did somethings for the people in Johnstown PA after the flood. It was the Salvation Army that really led the way for the people there. Ask anyone in Johnstown. The Salvation Army cares about people in general and helps everyone. I notice they are not in the limelight of helping Sandy’s Victims. Could it be they believe it is better to help people rather than getting press coverage while trying to raise funds?
Andrea Mitchell ridiculed Romneys efforts too, and called them wasteful.
I heard the same stories over and over from my grandfather. One in particular was after clearing the beachheads in Leyti Gulf. Food was sparse, and they were shooting down coconuts and breaking them anyway they could. The Red Cross had some of the GI’s set up a beautiful tent one day. Later he noted they called the officers in first, and he witnessed the officers coming out with coffee and donuts. About late afternoon, after the GI’s were rampantly hungry and angry about watching the officers walk out smiling, smoking, and joking, the Red Cross called everyone else to come on over, they were now open for all!. The GI’s were so excited he said. When they got inside, there were two lines, one for GI’s the other for officers. The officer line was free coffee and donuts, the GI line was “cash and carry”. What was worse, was that he said they were selling sheets of paper for a nickel. He said guys were asking for paper to write home with, and they were charging a nickel a sheet. He said you could get a stack of paper for a nickel anywhere else. He said one guy was very upset about this, and a captain tried to calm him down. The guy was so pissed my grandfather said. Finally, the captain told the red cross lady that there would have no selling of paper, something to the effect of “these boys have been through hell and back, and if they want a sheet of paper, you’ll give it to them, because those amphibious tanks behind the tent, have bad brakes, and one could just roll through here, and if you get these boys mad, they’ll just watch it roll on in”. All the GI’s laughed at the implied threat, and after that, sheets of paper were free.
He never game a dime to the Red Cross, even when the company he worked for told all the employees that they “expected a good donation” from everyone. He told them to shove it.
But he always gave generously to the Salvation Army, and left a good amount to them in his estate when he passed away.
He made sure all of us kids and grand-kids knew how the Red Cross treated them when they were overseas.
I’ve told that story a few times, and someone told me years ago that that was the “international red cross”, not the American Red Cross. I don’t know if that is true or not, maybe someone smarter than me could elaborate.
I’ve never been a fan of Romney either, all for Cain in the beginning. He is so far showing that he can/might/will do the right things to reset the nightmare that has been shoved up our arses by der Fuehrer. I am coming to admiring him a lot more. Can/might/will is leaps and bounds above the alternative of four more years of this grab for dictatorship by the kenyan and the democrat party.
FUBO & FAD
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