It is easy to criticize the Red Cross when you aren't a participant or have had a family member who is.
My step son took leave from his administrative job in a comfortable Connecticut hospital to work as a volunteer for two weeks in a shelter located in a Slidell, LA high school gymnasium, just north of the lake. They were short handed, had less than two days reserves of water and food, no air conditioning, no showers, ONE National Guardsman for security, NO Amateur Radio communications volunteers and HUNDREDS of homeless people that were trying to contact family or friends while barely managing to survive. Take a walk in his shoes before you toss too many rocks... but if you're going to toss them, toss them at me, not him... he was doing the best he could with what he had. 73, Tony W4ZT Kevin Custer wrote: > Jim B. wrote: >>> > "The Homeland Security Department has >>> >requested and continues to request that the American Red >>> >Cross not come back into New Orleans." >>> >> Not true. The American Red Cross has a Congressional mandate to do what >> they do. It would require an act of Congress to do prevent them from >> assisting. >> >> =========== >> Jim Barbour >> >10yrs with Greater Cleveland Red Cross > > Better look again, > http://www.redcross.org/faq/0,1096,0_682_4524,00.html Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
