Real People, Please do what you can....

[moroni]

The American Red Cross at Walter Reed Army Medical Center is looking for incidentals/comfort items for sick and wounded Armed Forces Personnel now recuperating at the hospital. When someone is stationed in Iraq, Afghanistan or elsewhere and is wounded or falls ill, they are immediately evacuated, and it can take weeks for their personnel effects to catch up with them. The Red Cross is asking for donations of any of the following:

- Telephone cards of at least 30 minutes
- Rolling luggage (small), totes, carry-ons
- Individually wrapped snacks
- Magazines
- Notepads, pens
- Playing cards and games
- Sweat pants and shirts (all sizes)

All items should be addressed to:

American Red Cross
ATTN: Barbara Green
Walter Reed Army Medical Center
6900 Georgia Ave, N.W.,
Washington, DC 20307-5001.

Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

[radwriter0555]

1. Send this request to the White House. This is their responsibility..

doncha know.

[grannylib]

3. Good thinking, I just e-mailed it to Shrub

[grannylib]

2. Great idea, thanks so much for sharing! Will distribute this one as widely

as possible...and then go shopping!

[MaineDem]

4. Thanks for the information

This makes me furious. Basically, I think all this should be right there for them. Part of the $87 billion bit.

This is one case where I think charity should be public. We should make it known that we are donating to this cause. And everyone should know that it's Bush's fault that this is even happening.

I'm curious, moroni, where did this information come from? Email...newspaper article?

[nuxvomica]

5. How recent is this info?

Here's a link to an item from the week before last:

Walter Reed Red Cross Manager Asks Donors To Hold Off
By Sgt. 1st Class Doug Sample, USA
American Forces Press Service

...
Now Barbara Green, the ARC station manager, says she has more phone cards, sweat pants, and luggage than she can use.

In fact, thanks to a generous public, so many items were donated that the Red Cross' storage room inside the hospital is filled to the brim, and Green is politely asking the public to hold off until further notice.
...

http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Dec2003/n12192003_200312199.html

But I ask because this could be "further notice".

edit: I called just now and they are still overwhelmed with donations.