Insult to Injury
This is appalling. Via Steve Bennen via Andrew Sullivan
via, well, just about everybody:
To get people to sign up, the military gives enlistment bonuses up to $30,000 in some cases.
Now men and women who have lost arms, legs, eyesight, hearing and can no longer serve are being ordered to pay some of that money back.
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“I tried to do my best and serve my country. I was unfortunately hurt in the process. Now they’re telling me they want their money back,” Fox said.
If this isn't a shameful day for the Pentagon and those to whom they answer, than there clearly never will be.
Read the original here.
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