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University Daily Kansan / Wednasday, October 23, 1991
A traffic accident, a train derailment, the suddenness of a lightning bolt on a rain-soaked golf course. They strike without warning. They happen every day--perhaps even to your friends or neighbors, to their cousins or their kids. It could be you.
If you're lucky afterwards, you'll end up in a fast ambulance and a good hospital. You may not be able to hear it (maybe your family will), but somebody there in the emergency room or the trauma unit is going to be shouting, "Blood! Get me some blood now!"
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IT COULD BE YOU life--an before and sweet certain-- utterly n
changed in a flash. Now nothing is certain, especially your survival. With blood you might make it into the critical care unit or recovery room. Without blood, you won't. And there's the problem.
Blood must come from people. And people haven't been giving blood the way they used to.The way they must if we're to save those patients who need it.
So it's you who have to give the blood shouted for in trauma units and emergency rooms. There's nowhere else to get it--and there's an urgent need for it.
Please give blood at the KU Blood Drive. Today and tomorrow, October 23rd and 24th at the Kansas Union Ballroom. Give blood and win a roundtrip ticket to anywhere in
the continental United States.
American Red Cross Blood Services, Wichita Region