Less Than 52% of Wounded Warrior Project Donations Helps Vets
About two years ago I was all enthused about donating $19 am month to the Wounded Warrior Project due to the ads we've all seen on TV. Then I read somewhere that the CEO makes $300,000 anally. That gave me pause, for I wondered what did the #2 person make as well as the rest of the top people in the administration. So I did not donate. Now today I read what is in the link and feel inspire to share.
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I feel particularly sorry for those drafted and told either fight to the death for us or we kill you. They had no choice. And that was here in the land of the free. Something to keep in mind on July 4.
But even those who were not drafted, Pat Tillman, for example, went to war with some sort of emotional drive to serve the country without thinking through if they were, in fact, serving the country. After losing hundreds of thousands to death injuries in Vietnam war, now it is a tourist destination. Exactly what did those casualties do for the U.S.?
I think Saint-Exupéry, in “Wind, Sand and Stars,” in 1939 explained it well:
“With more or less awareness, all men feel the need to come alive. But most of the methods suggested for bringing this about are snares and delusions. Men can of course be stirred into life by being dressed up in uniform and made to blare out chants of war. It must be confessed that this is one way for men to break bread with comrades and to find what they are seeking, which is a sense of something universal, of self-fulfilment. But of this bread men die.
“It is easy to dig up wooden idols and revive ancient and more or less workable myths like Pan-Germanism or the Roman Empire. The Germans can intoxicate themselves with the intoxication of being Germans and compatriots of Beethoven. A stoker in the hold of a freighter can be made drunk with this drink. What is more difficult is to bring up a Beethoven out of the stokehold. These idols, in sum, are carnivorous idols. The man who dies for the progress of science or the healing of the sick serves life in his very dying. It may be glorious to die for the expansion of territory, but modern warfare destroys what it claims to foster. The day is gone when men sent life coursing through the veins of a race by the sacrifice of a little blood. War carried on by gas and bombing is no longer war, it is a kind of bloody surgery.
“Each side settles down behind a concrete wall and finds nothing better to do than to send forth, night after night, squadrons of planes to bomb the guts of the other side, blow up its factories, paralyze its production, and abolish its trade. Such a war is won by him who rots last but in the end both rot together.
“In a world become a desert we thirst for comradeship. It is the savor of bread broken with comrades that makes us accept the values of war. But there are other ways than war to bring us the warmth of a race, shoulder to shoulder, towards an identical goal. War has tricked us.”
Jude's Children's Hospital.
They are currently sitting in almost $250,000,000 in assets (donation siting that are not being used) and in the last reporting year they have an excess of $100,000,000 in money they raised versus what went to "projects".
I don't know how that stacks up against other charities.
try to charge us for coffee and donuts. They and St. Jude's Children's Hospital are the only ones who get my donations.
I have read that the Salvation Army is the only charity that gives close to 100%.
Good find, Allosaur! Thanks for posting,