If I were at all cynical, I would be tempted to guess that the right is silent about this, because soldiers who can no longer fight for us have already served their purpose.  I’m glad I’m not that cynical, though.

Funny I have not seen this mentioned on any of the right-wing blogs I read.

Are you sure- they are so concerned with exposing the truth about government…

I think I’ll comment more on this later.

Funny I have not seen this mentioned on any of the right-wing blogs I read.

Signing bonuses and hazard pay are for exactly the reason that you might be serious wounded, irreparably damaged, or die. 

Unfortunately, this is not a new concept for the US government.  The phrase “Indian Giving” did not develop from the lack of faith on the North American Natives’ side of the deal. 

I’m sure we could all come up with many other historical (some recent and others none too recent) examples of broken US government promises and/or forceful recovery of “traded goods/services.” 

I guess some people need to believe in a place like hell to comfort themselves…  A way to convince themselves that the world today and the people of planet Earth, “isn’t/aren’t so bad, because it is much worse in hell.”

I thought that stopping the pay from dead soldiers was bad enough (between DoD and pay day), but this is a new low.