12.21.05
Red Cross Disaster Relief
Nope, this is not during the bombing… it appears to be a coffee station to help all the folks WALKING into Manhattan. Kudos to the Red Cross.
I guess I’m just grumpy because I have to deal with the transit strike over the holidays. T, I love ya and you’re my blood, but I’m not lovin’ your union so much.
ETA: T is not related to Thom, the gentleman who took the above photo. I don’t know Thom, but I like his photos!
Ed Stern said,
December 21, 2005 at 2:51 pm
As a bit of a Red Cross Historian (18 years as a staffer and volunteer), the Red Cross has an interesting “coffee” history and there are some people that will say this coffee jesture will never be enough… the story? Well it seems that during WWII (the big one…) the Red Cross started charging GI’s for coffee. Yes our service men had to pay the Red Cross of a cup of Java… Now keep in mind we’re not talking StarBUCKS but it was still a scadel of the time. So, in my Red Cross days it wasn’t uncommon to have an old WWII serivce man to give me a hard time for it. Heck once I walked into a hotel lobby in my Red Cross gear (I was working, I don’t wear it for fun) and it turns out there was a reunion for a WWII battle group… It was like “walking the line” — I got boo’s and hiss’es.. One “ol’ guy” even threw a nickel at me… So, Red Cross… keep serving that coffee, one day we’ll be forgotten for our past