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March 15, 2010 - Senator Baker presented Tom Foley, President
and CEO of the Southeastern Pennsylvania Chapter of the American Red Cross, with
a citation designating March 2010 as "American Red Cross Month" in Pennsylvania.
Senator Baker's grandfather – Ervin Calhoun – was a soldier in the
Spanish-American War of 1898 and was part of the 1st Regiment of the
Pennsylvania Voluntary Infantry. While encamped in Chickamauga, Georgia, some
members of the regiment contracted malaria. In partnership with the American Red
Cross, a train picked up the sickened soldiers and transferred them to the City
of Philadelphia to receive medical attention. The Red Cross flag pictured in the
photo was on the train when this transfer occurred. It currently hangs in
Senator Baker's Harrisburg office.
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