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Show Red Cross Volunteers Assist War Veterans Red Cross workers in chapters, in hospitals and on posts of the Army, Navy, Coast Guard, and Marine Corps, assisted 122,355 active service men or veterans or their families during the past 12 months. Red Cross service to these men included such personal help as letter-writing, shopping and recreational rec-reational leadership, but it also included financial assistance to their dependents, help in locating missing members of their families, fami-lies, and assistance in filing necessary nec-essary applications for pensions, disability pay, hospitalization, or for discharge from active service because of home needs. The average number of men assisted as-sisted by Red Cross workers each month was 18,790, according to a recent report. |