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		<title>Services to the Armed Forces program: National Military Appreciation Month</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 21:13:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From its early days, the American Red Cross has provided full support to the members of the U.S. military, veterans and their families. Jonathan Aguilera attests to these efforts whole-heartedly. Jonathan is the proud father of Jacinda Aguilera who is a Sergeant with the Army National Guard and who also served in Afghanistan before being [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=redcrossstories.wordpress.com&#038;blog=31668070&#038;post=3410&#038;subd=redcrossstories&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Team Firestopper Prepares Your Community From a Fire Disaster</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 15:52:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine the place you call home, the place you share with your family, the place you grew up, gone. Fires can be one of the most devastating things to happen to a family. It can destroy homes, possessions, memories, and lives. In a matter of minutes, everything that a home holds dear can be burnt [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=redcrossstories.wordpress.com&#038;blog=31668070&#038;post=3393&#038;subd=redcrossstories&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>National Volunteer Week&#8211;Ernest Hemingway</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 15:30:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you read one of Ernest Hemingway’s works it might not strike you that he was once an ambulance driver for the American Red Cross! As we celebrate National Volunteer week, we would like to highlight the contributions of our devoted volunteers to the Red Cross mission particularly, of renowned American author Ernest Hemingway. During [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=redcrossstories.wordpress.com&#038;blog=31668070&#038;post=3385&#038;subd=redcrossstories&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>National Volunteer Week—AmeriCorps member Brianna Niemi</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 15:13:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  “Everybody can be great because anybody can serve. You don&#8217;t have to have a college degree to serve. You don&#8217;t have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love.”&#8211;Martin Luther King Jr. The Red Cross is more than a [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=redcrossstories.wordpress.com&#038;blog=31668070&#038;post=3380&#038;subd=redcrossstories&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Red Cross Volunteer Honors a Chicago Hero</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 16:57:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On a chilly November morning, Greg Ewing put on his Red Cross volunteer vest, and prepared to honor a hero. Greg, a Red Cross Disaster Action Team volunteer, had never met the man whose funeral he was attending, but vividly knew his face. “I had seen him so many times on the news, covered in [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=redcrossstories.wordpress.com&#038;blog=31668070&#038;post=3370&#038;subd=redcrossstories&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Volunteer Week: Walt Disney</title>
		<link>http://redcrossstories.wordpress.com/2013/04/22/volunteer-week-walt-disney/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 17:16:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[       As the always insightful Mr. Rogers once said, “When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, &#8220;Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.&#8221; To this day, especially in times of &#8220;disaster,&#8221; I remember my mother&#8217;s words and [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=redcrossstories.wordpress.com&#038;blog=31668070&#038;post=3353&#038;subd=redcrossstories&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Heidi Klum: Supermodel, Supermom, and Superhero</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2013 19:07:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Heidi Klum is a supermodel turned superhero. During a recent vacation to Hawaii, The American Red Cross Celebrity Cabinet member helped rescue her son, Henry, and two nannies from a dangerous riptide off the beach on the island of Oahu. The courageous supermom quickly ran into action, and luckily no one was hurt. Heidi is [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=redcrossstories.wordpress.com&#038;blog=31668070&#038;post=3343&#038;subd=redcrossstories&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Saving Lives one Donation at a Time</title>
		<link>http://redcrossstories.wordpress.com/2013/04/01/saving-lives-one-donation-at-a-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 21:53:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Would you believe you could help save a life in just 30 minutes?  Every donation of blood is a way to prepare and help a community. The effort to give is what drew in the crowds at the American Red Cross of Greater Chicago last Tuesday morning.  Red Cross employees and other ordinary participants took [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=redcrossstories.wordpress.com&#038;blog=31668070&#038;post=3333&#038;subd=redcrossstories&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Giving Blood to Give Back</title>
		<link>http://redcrossstories.wordpress.com/2013/02/13/i-wanted-to-give-back/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 22:38:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Katerina Svigos showed up to work at Groupon on an arctic Friday morning, blocked out time in her calendar and put her name on the list. This wasn’t, however, any ordinary list.  This list was to save someone’s life – just like the person who saved her cousin’s. Katerina signed up to give blood. In [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=redcrossstories.wordpress.com&#038;blog=31668070&#038;post=3306&#038;subd=redcrossstories&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Path to Recovery</title>
		<link>http://redcrossstories.wordpress.com/2012/09/07/a-day-that-started-with-a-bang/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2012 15:45:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The fire started a little after 3 am. Thirteen-year-old Alexander had been awakened by a loud bang. He got up and discovered fire quickly spreading through the house. Alexander scrambled to wake and alert the rest of the family. DAT (Disaster Action Team) responders arrived at the scene of a house fire in Bartlett early Sunday [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=redcrossstories.wordpress.com&#038;blog=31668070&#038;post=3301&#038;subd=redcrossstories&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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