American Red Cross

While I was visiting my aunt and uncle over the weekend my aunt brought out this box and asked me if I would like to look through it.  She was an American Red Cross vol. and had been called to the World Trade Center tragedy, As part of a family services rep.  I went looking thru the box when I got home, there was a photo album w/ all kinds of post cards, photo's of one of my cousin etc... I came across a note book which she had made into a daily journal of people she had met who had a missing family member(S) and how for seven days a week for three weeks all this human loss effected her.

Some of the stories from families that were permantly  engrained in her memory, some were so graphic that even I had to stop reading.  Her brother used to travel to Manhatten on Sundays and Tuesdays, with produce to deliver to the windows on the world restaraunt sometimes my cousin would go with him on Tuesdays in the summer.

There were quite a few photo's of the Twin Towers and one of one of my cousin standing on the observation deck of Windows on the World.  Had school not already started by Sept. 11 he would have been with his uncle to deliver produce to the Trade center on that day.  She and her crew frm the Red Cross went to visit a Fire house who had lost almost their whole crew to thank them for their sacrifice and they thanked them for being there for them and their fallen brothers.  It was very moving and humbling for me.

My aunt endured alot while there but came away w/ a sence that she had made a difference in family services.  But no longer involved w/ The Red Cross.

Just makes you appreciate life in general and much more.

dewalt