Red Cross Response to Sandyhttp://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/11/02/staten-islanders-on-sandy-response-weve-been-left-far-behind/“Red Cross is here with hot chocolate and cookies. We need blankets, we need pillows, we need clothing. We can get hot chocolate and cookies, we need help!†resident Jodi Hannula said.
I don't know how many people on here have ever had dealings with the Red Cross, but my family has on 2 occasions.
Both turned out badly. We spent 20 years in the Army.
The 1st time all we needed from them was to help make a phine call home. We were in Germany for the 1st time, we were very young, knew nothing of how to use the phone system over there and our new born son was born with only three fingers on each hand. We needed to talk to our family and tell them what happened and to get the comfort talking to family brings at a time like that. But we were told they don't help people make phone calls.
The 2nd time we needed the Red Cross was when my father-in-law was dying, the family tried to get the Red Cross to notify his company so he could get emergency leave, they kept giving us bull shit answers and nothing was happening, finally the C.O. gave my husband emergency leave on his own knowing that eventually the word would come from the Red Cross. As it turned out my husband did not arrive home in time to see his Dad before he passed away.
I have no good feeling and will never donate to the Red Cross, from my experience with them and from what I see in the Sandy area's looks like someone is filling their pockets with cash, because there doesn't seem to be that much actual help going out.
