 My first Red Cross experience as a young boy was about ham sandwiches because we were playing on the schoolyard where the blood donation buses of the Swiss Red Cross were parked and those donating blood received ham sandwiches after the blood donation. The US teacher thought that nobody could better than two Swiss girls present Ari Dunant to the other classmates and it's only through those presentations I worked through that I realized the power and the myth of the person, the man and the movement behind the man which has the status as George Washington, as Mother Teresa, Martin Luther King. My daughters, they are pretty keen to watch what I am doing and pretty interested to hear me when I come home, in particular when I come home from visits in the field. It's not just observing and reasoning about the origin of the violence, it's the effort to translate what you see and what you hear into meaningful action. I'm Peter Maurer and I have a Red Cross and Red Crescent story.