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I would like to relate to you the adventure I had yesterday serving food to the poor and the homless at the Victory Mission. I arrived at 10:00am. the kitchen area was already in full swing. they were cooking 50 turkeys in electrc roasters. Food had been pouring in since before dawn,people had been fixing dishes at home last night and this morning to serve. I began helping set up the tables and the chairs. OUtside it was 12 degrees. It has snowed and there was a strong wind which made it a wind chill of minus 7. There were already people lined up at the door. By 11:00 we had food ready to serve and the room set up. We opened the door and let them in. Between 11:00 am and 10:00pm we served over 1,200 meals. Poor people homeless people, families who were living in their car with their children. We made sure that each and every one of them had a full meal and a hot drink, the children had milk. and each one of them had a blanket when they left. I was bone tired but never felt so alive. I was sad and felt so badly for each of he people there, some of them were addicts you could tell, but some were good honest hard working people that had just fallen on hard times. I talked to one family and they said if they went to (****) shelter that they would be seperated from their children by family services so they are fighting to keep together as long as they can. I am sitting here today in my heated posh office waiting for my next patient needing me to examine his ass, and I wonder can I be doing more?