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Article: Red Cross: 'Always there'
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- Honolulu Star - Bulletin
- Article date:
- April 20, 1998
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While Princess Kaiulani struggled with America's annexation of Hawaii in 1898, yet another problem landed ashore: the sick and wounded soldiers of the Spanish-American War.
The princess and 300 other women mobilized to feed and care for the shiploads of injured stopping in Honolulu on their way from the Philippines. Taking a cue from Henri Dunant, the Swiss citizen who formed the world's first neutral society called the Red Cross in 1863 to help war victims, the women began the Red Cross Society of Hawaii.
Today with American National Red Cross President Elizabeth Dole in Honolulu, the state chapter commemorates 100 years of Red Cross service. A history that began by caring for soldiers ...