Please help them!!!! - RED CROSS

[liquidkudzu]

I found this posting at one of the Yahoo Groups and need to share it:

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http://store.yahoo.com/redcross-donate2/

or

http://www.redcross.org (NOTE: some stores such as Bi-Lo grocery store will match your donation if you give it through their store. This makes your donation double--please do that if you can)

Those two links will help. I watched footage last night and this is something that the US has never experienced. Sep. 11th was unimaginable, but the physical wreckage was confined to a few square miles. This is covering thousands of square miles and the death count will hit the thousands (just like Sep 11th did).

The US has never been offered help, even though we dish out billions of dollars to individual countries each year--countries that wouldn't dream of offering anything back to a country like the US who supports them constantly, but they have. For the first time ever, countries like Saudi Arabia, France, Japan, China, and others have offered help to us! That shows there is hope for the world. I just hope the people in Washington aren't too proud to take that help.

In the Superdome, they are piling the dead bodies in the corner and have run out of food. Yes, they are looting, but I don't consider it looting to take baby food, diapers, and food for your family from an abondoned grocery store. If you just leave the food there, it will not go back into store circulation--it will be thrown away a few months from now. Take it and feed someone.

Needless to say the thugs that are taking tv's, and sneakers are just exploiting the situation, but people taking cases of orange juice to those who have not eaten in days are NOT stealing. This is different.

Please everyone, help.

lk