So, if you want to help the cause with a financial donation - go to www.redcross.org or www.mercycorps.org or www.salvationarmy.org or well you know where to go. If you want to help support Operation Lipstick, contact me - margaretmanning@hotmail.com and together we'll bring some external beauty to women who have enough passion inside to light the entire world. A streak of lipstick, perhaps a kiss.

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Today I bumped into someone at work and we were chatting about Lipstick and a giving campaign we have underway for the holidays.

She told me about a quote she had read about an incident in a second world war concentration camp where some person had sent lipstick to the women there.

This was the most moving thing I have ever read, and made me realize how blessed we all are, and how much we take for granted. A simple thing like lipstick.

An appropriate quote for thanksgiving.

It was shortly after the British Red Cross arrived, though it may have no connection, that a very large quantity of lipstick arrived. This was not at all what we men wanted, we were screaming for hundreds and thousands of other things and I don't know who asked for lipstick. I wish so much that I could discover who did it, it was the action of genius, sheer unadulterated brilliance. I believe nothing did more for these internees than the lipstick. Women lay in bed with no sheets and no nightie but with scarlet red lips, you saw them wandering about with nothing but a blanket over their shoulders, but with scarlet red lips. I saw a woman dead on the post mortem table and clutched in her hand was a piece of lipstick. At last someone had done something to make them individuals again, they were someone, no longer merely the number tatooed on the arm. At last they could take an interest in their appearance. That lipstick started to give them back their humanity