American Red Cross Research Paper

Imagine it’s the end of World War I. How does this particular war affect the people who have been contributing to its effort? Better yet, imagine how it would affect the whole of southwest Virginia. The end of World War I was the beginning of a new age, with families picking up the pieces of where they once were before the war started. The main part of the war effort to maintain the home-front was how the small colleges in the area supported the American Red Cross in helping our country’s Veterans. I have chosen to write about how the Martha Washington College, the Stonewall Jackson College, and the Emory and Henry College all contributed to the American Red Cross and the war effort.
If I were living in ninteen eighteen, World War I would just now be ending. I would not have been able to fight due to my young age, but would have held down the home-front along with aiding the American Red Cross. The Colleges in my area would have been contributing as well. The Martha Washington College has been aiding the American Red Cross by contributing both money and labor. The college donated one hundred dollars for supplies, and innumerous articles of knitted clothing. All of the faculty and students made substantial investments in liberty bonds and war savings stamps. Along
with the Martha Washington College, the Stonewall Jackson College contributed to the war effort, too. Their campus recently suffered from a fire, but that didn’t stop them from making very generous donations. When the war came, they were only part of the way through reconstructing their school buildings, yet they still made time to stop in their tracks and help the war effort. They made garments for the military and the faculty bought innumerable amounts of war savings stamps. Surprisingly, one student alone put together one thousand one hundred dollars in war savings stamps.
Although the Martha Washington College and Stonewall Jackson College both made many appreciated donations, the Emory and Henry College did as well.
In promoting the work of the American Red Cross, Emory and Henry raised around three hundred dollars. They were also very proficient in the saving of Liberty Bonds and war savings stamps. More than one hundred of the college’s nineteen seventeen graduates went into service for the armed forces, and approximately ten of them were commissioned as officers. Now that the war is over, one hundred eighty three students have gone into the student army training corps, and one hundred four of them have gone into the reserve officers training
corps.
To sum it all up, the Martha Washington College, the Stonewall Jackson College, and Emory and Henry College have all made significant donations to aid the Red Cross and the war effort. The Martha Washington College submitted innumerable knitted articles of clothing, along with investments going to Liberty bonds and savings stamps. The Stonewall Jackson College stopped rebuilding their college that was reduced to ashes and rubble by a raging fire, and made garments for the American Red Cross. One of the students even raised one thousand one hundred dollars worth of war stamps to support the troops. Emory and Henry College also promoted the Red Cross in saving Liberty Bonds and stamps. The students and faculty raised three hundred dollars for the armed forces, and two hundred eighty-seven of the students joined military training programs when the war ended. This all just comes to show how our country can band together in times of need. No matter what race, ethnicity, or religion, we all came together to help with the challenges that World War I brought with it.