My ex-FIL, who survived the battle of the bulge, use to say the Red Cross could stick it where the sun don't shine cause they charged for donated donuts.
I guess they still do in a way.
Not to defend the Red Cross, but as Paul Harvey used to write, "....and now, the rest of the story."
There were two organizations that provided coffee and doughnuts to soldiers in England during the second world war.
One of them was the Red Cross; the American Red Cross and the British Red Cross.
(The other was the Salvation Army.)
The British Red Cross was compelled to charge British soldiers for coffee and doughnuts, while at first the American Red Cross gave coffee and doughnuts to American soldiers at no charge. This caused some bad feelings, and because it wasn't possible to "equalize" the situation by the British Red Cross giving coffee and doughnuts away, the American Red Cross began to charge too, so as to ameliorate any bad feelings.
(The Salvation Army of both nations gave it away.)
So it wasn't as bad as one thinks; Eisenhower had dictated that soldiers of both nations had to be treated equally.
