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- Food Pantry Workers including those in need themselves spending time to see that others are fed
- Faith Organizations providing refuge to the homeless by allowing “tent cities” to reside on their grounds (and further to fight local authorities for the right to do so)
- Red Cross volunteers responding to selflessly to disasters – things as common as hometown fires in the middle of the night to rapid response to large scale disasters
- Companies – and yes there are some – that deliver superior customer service in spite of tough economic times, reduced profits and a national trend to ignore the customer.
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I went to this site tonight with the idea of wishing a very Blessed and Happy Christmas. I still extend that wish. Unfortunately, I read the article posted. Wish I could agree with what was written, but I can’t. This year, when I had to visit the stores to buy gifts and day to day necessities, I ran into a rudeness and a grimness of purpose that I have never seen during the Christmas Season, not Holiday, but Christmas Season. The people, I mean all of them, were uncivil. They knocked each other down, including me last Sunday with no apologies. I found out tonight a local mall made news with a riot over athletic shoes that warranted the police. I found out in September that not only Red Cross chapters in my area were closed down or downsized in a big way, but other states as well. So much for aid in disaster, since there most likely won’t be volunteers to aid those in need. I found out a few days ago via the news that a person or persons in my county were cleaning out mailboxes and either opening up the packages or dumping them in fields. My brother tried to get food for Christmas (my family including myself are undergoing major financial problems this season) a few days ago from a Charity Organization. He got little, but others got three times what he got due to favoritism. With all this in mind, I have to say that I’m glad I’m still on “track” as far as preparing is concerned. I realize, after all I’ve seen during this Christmas Season, that I’m glad I ‘m entrenched in day to day preps (a word I dislike using) so if something happens ……I’m ready. As for preparing as if I’m wishing something bad to happen, I seem to remember something said in a Psychology course I took: a self fulfilling prophecy. The event will usually happen because the conditions are being created for it to happen. The events that I’ve related, plus what is going on in Europe presently are setting the stage for a disaster that most likely will happen. Why deny it? Didn’t George Washington successfully attack the Hessians, who were unprepared for an attack, at New Jersey on Christmas evening? Just because it’s a holiday doesn’t mean something can’t happen. I still believe in the Spirit of Christmas, I really do! But I think it’s best to look reality in the eye and to be prepared as well. Merry Christmas!