[Dialogue] Letter To Editor

[Jayandem2@aol.com]

Forwarded Message: 
Subj: Re: Letter to the Herald   Date: 9/4/2005 7:58:23 P.M. Central Daylight 
Time  From: _Mbtippett2_ (mailto:Mbtippett2)   To: _DKlement at heraldtoday.com_ 
(mailto:DKlement at heraldtoday.com)  

Here is my letter:  
 
My name is Michael Tippett
Address: 4676 32nd Court East
               Bradenton, FL 34203
               (941) 753-5189
 
> From:     Mbtippett2 at aol.com
> Sent:      Thursday, September 1, 2005 2:48 PM
> To:     Klement,  David
> Subject:     Letter to the Herald
> 
> 80  years ago, in 1925, a violent tornado struck Lorain, Ohio.  My father 
was a  teenager, and his house was completely destroyed, a pile of rubble in 
the middle  of their street.  His family lost everything.  The Red Cross came to 
 their rescue, erected a tent on their property and provided food and 
clothing to  his family for weeks.  This past Christmas day, a fire in our home here 
in  Bradenton made it unlivable.  Within an hour of the fire being put out, a  
volunteer from the Red Cross arrived at our home, and arranged for my wife, 
our  disabled adult daughter and I to be housed in a motel.  The Red Cross paid 
 for 5 nights for our rooms until our insurance company picked up the  
responsibility for our housing.  My grandmother would never permit a  negative 
comment to be said in her presence about the Red Cross.  She was  grateful for 
their care for the rest of her life.  My wife and I share her  admiration and are 
making a substantial contribution to the Red Cross to aid the  victims of 
Katrina.  We urge everyone to donate whatever you can to enable  the volunteers of 
the Red Cross to continue their humanitarian aid.
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>  
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> Michael Tippett
> 
> 4676 32nd  Court East
> 
> Bradenton, FL 34203
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> (941)  753-5189
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> 

 
Judith, Mike and Meg