Speaking for both organizations, we want to thank the community for stepping up in a time of need like this.

We're really pleased with the results.

Even with the rapid and generous support from the American public and neighboring countries, a Community Hurricane Relief Campaign is necessary to deliver the critical services that Americans trust the American Red Cross and The Salvation Army to deliver.

We met a week ago and put the drive together. Together we can help more people. From the very beginning we knew that partnership was a key to being successful.

All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die; And youth, that's now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny by and by

Separate we come, and separate we go, And this be it known, is all that we know