A list of our most recent news articles:

5/23/2008 — Red Cross Delivers Emergency Messages Over Hill, Over Dale
American Red Cross staff deploy with U. S. troops to provide emergency communications for military and their families.
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12/20/2007 — American Red Cross Delivers Holiday Cheer to Wounded Service Members
Thousands of holiday cards and messages pouring in to the Red Cross are being delivered to hospitalized service members nationwide and abroad.
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11/19/2007 — Defense Bill Contains $20 Million for Red Cross
The FY08 defense appropriations bill includes $20 million to help the Red Cross continue its historic mission of supporting U.S. troops and their families.
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11/9/2007 — Red Cross Provides ‘Family Touch’ to Veterans
Red Cross support of service members doesn’t end when they return home from deployment
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11/9/2007 — Roots with the Military Run Deep
Disaster relief services and blood drives are the public face of the American Red Cross, but behind the scenes we’ve been serving military personnel and their families since our founding.
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11/5/2007 — Bound for Iraq, but Taking Memories of Home
For a U.S. soldier, the Red Cross is a link to home; for a Red Cross worker in Iraq, a favorite photo can serve the same purpose.
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10/12/2007 — Home is Where the Van Is
Charlie Hahn died several years ago, but disabled veterans in New Jersey are reminded of him when they call the Red Cross for a ride.
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9/27/2007 — Red Cross Workers Deploy With Service Members in Iraq
The Red Cross mobile Armed Forces Emergency Services team go to all ends of the Earth to help U.S. service members...literally.
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9/20/2007 — Red Cross Connects Armed Forces Members Serving Abroad
Military members, whether active duty, Guard, or Reserve, and their families communicate through the Red Cross during times of personal crisis.
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5/30/2007 — Lis Rohm, Red Cross Visit Walter Reed Army Medical Center
Actress Lis Rohm is a Red Cross volunteer with her local chapter in New York. Last year, after traveling to the site of a devastating home fire in the Bronx, Rohm decided she wanted to do more with the organization.
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5/16/2007 — Beyond the Beaches: "Clubbing" through France
On a hillside west of Verdun, leafy trees and lush greenery give way to memories of muddy foxholes and trenches.
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5/15/2007 — Beyond the Beaches: A Diplomatic Day
In a French town synonymous with war, Red Crossers who assisted the Allied effort honored the fallen, celebrated the spirit of rebirth, and made new friends.
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5/12/2007 — Beyond the Beaches: Honoring a Fallen Comrade
At an American cemetery overlooking Omaha Beach, Red Crossers who served in World War II remember a friend and colleague.
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5/11/2007 — Beyond the Beaches of Normandy
More than 60 years after landing on the beaches at Normandy, several Red Cross workers return to France to retrace their steps and share memories of how they supported our troops.
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4/17/2007 — Red Crosser making home away from home
The roles that American Red Cross staff take on in providing services to members of the military and their families abroad are varied in description and execution, but the core meaning is the same – to keep soldiers who are serving their country connected with family in times of emergency.
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12/28/2006 — Red Cross helps connect, comfort two marine moms
Lance Corporals Eric Herzberg and Sebastian Ploszaj graduated from their respective high schools in 2005, and both joined the Marines with dreams of attending college one day.
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12/27/2006 — American Red Cross honors humanitarian workers serving overseas
Like all national societies in the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement (Movement), the mission of the American Red Cross is focused on providing life-saving programs and services to local communities, and that mission often extends to helping neighbors around the world.
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12/1/2006 — American Red Cross Armed Forces Emergency Services Today
At this time of year, our thoughts often turn to those who will not be home for the holidays – the men and women of the armed forces serving their country far from home. Since its inception, the American Red Cross has been committed to supporting servicemen and women – working to keep members of the U.S. military and their families connected, not just at the holidays but throughout the year.
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11/14/2006 — Honoring All Who Served
On a warm and glorious Saturday in November, thousands gathered at Arlington National Cemetery to honor all United States veterans, in celebration of their lives and contributions during the 53rd Annual Veterans Day National Ceremony.
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11/11/2006 — American Red Cross, Honoring Veterans Today and Everyday
For more than a century, the American Red Cross has honored members of the military by serving the men and women who serve their country and their families.
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10/6/2006 — Red Cross Honors Unsung Heroine
For 40 years, Emily Simmonds' unclaimed ashes had lain forgotten in an unmarked grave in Pomona, Calif., but on Sept. 28, the San Gabriel Pomona Valley Chapter of the American Red Cross helped the world remember Simmonds' heroism when it unveiled a memorial monument commemorating Simmonds’ life.
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9/20/2006 — American Red Cross Workers in Germany Answered the Call to Help Lebanon Evacuees
Workers with the American Red Cross Armed Forces Emergency Services (AFES) team both domestically and stationed abroad offer assistance to members of the U.S. military, their families and veterans providing emergency communications between family members, counseling and access to financial assistance for things like emergency travel. Sometimes these workers answer the call to help those who are helping others.
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8/18/2006 — Armed Forces Emergency Services: An American Red Cross Caseworker
American Red Cross caseworkers and their predecessors have been sending emergency messages on behalf of United States servicemen and women since World War I.
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11/10/2005 — A Lifetime of Serving His Country
Veterans Day affords us all an opportunity to take a moment to recognize and thank those men and women who have served our country. Formerly known as Armistice Day to honor veterans of the First World War, and later changed Veterans day, this national holiday is a day of remembrance to honor the servicemen and women.
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3/12/2004 — Red Cross Eases the Transition for Military Families
First Sgt. Michael Naugle of the Florida Army National Guard returned home on March 6 after serving in Iraq for more than a year. It was a dangerous, difficult assignment, and he knew that back home his wife Colleen was worried about his safety. But he took some comfort in the fact that the American Red Cross was providing special support to his family while he was away.
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11/25/2003 — Red Cross Provides Support for Military Spouses
Separation from spouses who are deployed overseas is difficult, especially during the holidays. Local Red Cross chapters help offer comfort and support.
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11/7/2003 — Red Cross Volunteers Support Patients at Veteran Medical Centers
As Americans honor the men and women who have served in the armed forces this Veteran’s Day, the work of the Red Cross to support them will be remembered as well. In addition to many other services the American Red Cross provides to the U.S. military, thousands of Red Cross workers serve every day in Veterans Affairs (VA) medical centers nationwide.
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10/7/2003 — Red Cross Worker Reflects on Middle East Assignment
Early in January 2003, Ken Romero, the American Red Cross Station Manager at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colo., was enjoying the third day of his honeymoon when he received word he was being deployed to the Persian Gulf.
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9/2/2003 — Special Delivery Message Connects Red Cross Family
When little Molly Rothman was born, an AFES message brought the news to her father stationed in Iraq and linked a family that was oceans apart in an extraordinary way.
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8/29/2003 — Helping a Military Family Can Bring Unexpected Rewards
A grieving husband called the Hoosier Heartland Chapter of the American Red Cross in Muncie, IN, in 1995, asking that an emergency message about his wife's death be sent to his son-in-law.
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4/29/2003 — Red Cross Messages Provide Vital Military Link
Armed Forces Emergency Services staff of the Red Cross are alongside troops in the Middle East and around the world keeping soldiers and their families connected.
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