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Beth Dunn: What the Red Cross Means to Me

by Holly Tucker April 19, 2011

By Beth Dunn Hurricane Bob hit Cape Cod at the tail end of the summer I turned nineteen. My mother was in charge of setting up the biggest shelter in …

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David Laskin: What the Red Cross Means to Me

by Holly Tucker April 14, 2011December 8, 2017

I know from researching The Long Way Home, my book about the immigrant experience in the war, that many of the half million foreign born soldiers who fought with U.S. forces got their first taste of American hospitality at Red Cross canteens.

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Marjorie Hart: What the Red Cross Means to Me

by Holly Tucker April 13, 2011

What a welcome they received as they stepped onto American soil and how they appreciated the Red Cross ladies as they dispensed 35,000 half-pints of milk at the pier. Many had not tasted milk for four years.

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Sarah Hilary: What the Red Cross Means to Me

by Holly Tucker April 11, 2011

To me, the Red Cross will always be linked to my mother’s memory of her first taste of bread and butter, as a little girl held prisoner…

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Joe Foster: What the Red Cross Means to Me

by Holly Tucker April 8, 2011

I remember one kid in particular. He was one of those little guys with orange hair and white eyebrows; the kind of kid that the sun burns just for fun.

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Linda Francis Lee: What the Red Cross Means to Me

by Holly Tucker April 1, 2011

It was in that line that we began to try to make sense of something that couldn’t be explained.

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Paul Vachon: What the Red Cross Means to Me

by Holly Tucker April 1, 2011

Since my high school days, I’ve been a Red Cross blood donor, my initial motivation being my somewhat rare type (B negative).

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James Beckerman, M.D.: What the Red Cross Means to Me

by Holly Tucker March 31, 2011

But then I asked him what he felt was most important about being a good physician. “Being there,” he said. “Just being there.”

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Elizabeth Loupas: What the Red Cross Means to Me

by Holly Tucker March 31, 2011

… the floor littered with empty shreds of red and green foil, and the two beloved chihuahuas who were spending the night with us already beginning to look bilious. What did we do?

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Sandra Worth: What the Red Cross Means to Me

by Holly Tucker March 31, 2011

Back in the Middle Ages – the period I write about – there was no organization like the Red Cross to help those who suffered disasters, natural or otherwise.

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