Did those two links contradict anything I have posted?

>http://www.redcross.org/faq/0,1096,0_682_4524,00.html
>http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05246/565143.stm
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>>Your own ears appear to contradict this story on CNN:
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>>http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/08/katrina.redcross/index.html
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>>"The national president of the American Red Cross, Marsha Evans, first made the request to undertake the operation during a visit to the state on September 1, three days after Hurricane Katrina struck, a local Red Cross chapter official said."