O'Reilly: Charge Red Cross With Fraud

NewsMax.com ^ | 10/30/01 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

[LeeMcCoy]

My father was a demolitions expert in Germany during the occupation. He said that the Salvation Army would visit our soldiers in their foxholes and bring them free coffee, hot chocolate, donuts, and sandwiches. The Red Cross was there too, but charged our soldiers for everything! I cannot imagine our guys, cold and shivering in some foxhole somewhere, having to fish through their pockets to pay for a lousy cup of coffee!

You can bet the Red Cross never told their families back home that their sons would still have to pay for that coffee...as moms and dads "did without" to send their boys aid and comfort through the Red Cross.

Dad also said that while he was in Basic, the Red Cross came to his camp and requested blood donations for injured soldiers in Korea. Almost everyone in his camp donated gladly. They found out later that the Red Cross then sold the blood to stateside hospitals, and not a drop was sent to Korea.

Fraud? A mild term in my opinion!

[vannrox]

They make me sick!

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

I heard that report also..diversity and (not sure) tolerance.

[The Shadow Knows]

Don't forget to contribute to the Boy Scouts.

[backhoe]

I've just heard too many stories over the years about their "voluntary contributions" being shakedowns- don't give, you get in bad with management. That is not right.