POW's disability pay angers father - Jesse Jackson: race played a part in Army's decision

Associated Press ^ | October 25, 2003 | Associated Press Staff

[MeekOneGOP]

Old Jesse seems to be getting in Texas news just here lately ...

10-14-2003
Governor signs redistricting bill -
'RATS expected to take dispute over minority issues to court

The Rev. Jesse Jackson called the redistricting an affront to the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

"We must be prepared to go back to mass demonstration to diminish the effects of this," he said.

[TommyDale]

Geez...does thi$ guy never $hut up? No matter what the $ubject, Je$$e Jack$on alway$ ha$ to throw in the race i$$ue. We all know what it'$ really about, don't we?!!

[mylife]

She deserves full disability

[TommyDale]

I wonder how much the young lady will pay Je$$e in commi$$ion$, after the government increa$e$ her pay.

[Held_to_Ransom]

If Condi put the effort into keeping Americans of African heritage out of the army that she does with colleges, the army would suffer extravagantly.

[cajun-jack]

she won't have to pay hime, he won't have to pay her...all she has to do is have a coupla kids for him.

[Spyder]

She deserves full disability

Disability doesn't work on the merit system. I agree she "deserves" it, but disability doesn't work that way. There are too many who have abused it over the years. There are very specific guidelines laid out as to what injuries cause what percentage of disability.

[in the Arena]

Spc. Johnson should appeal her disability compensation on her own. She and her family are being exploited by Jackson and his racist policies to the detriment of all military personel.

[txzman]

I'm all for giving her the same disability - but first you have to break her back in three places and put her in rehab for a year.

[MeekOneGOP]

We all know what it'$ really about, don't we?!!

I think I do. It's usually THIS ! ...

[FollowingTheGrace]

She deserves full disability

Why??! As I recall she had only minor difficulty, due to ankle injury, walking to the transport plane after her rescue. Why would she not be completely recovered at this point? Why disability at all?

[halfdome]

At the very least, she was shot in both legs. She may have other injuries, too.

[FollowingTheGrace]

At the very least, she was shot in both legs. She may have other injuries, too.

But she walked to the plane after a couple of weeks of little or no treatment...I guess I have trouble believing she was that badly injured.

[per loin]

Whine, whine, whine...etc.

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

"She deserves full disability"

Why? See the true movie account "Band Of Brothers" Some of those GI's were wounded very severely more than once and put right back into combat if they could walk.

She deserves no more, nor no less than others in her condition recieve.

[aynrandfreak]

Lynch probably got a better deal because her story was more compelling, not because she's white. If race played a role, then are the other people that got 30% all minorities too?

[PISANO]

THE ARMY doesn't have ANYTHING to do with the rating of disability compensation. It is the VA and the VA doctors ONLY that do this and they have SPECIFIC formulas that deliniate what percentage of disablity is granted based on the type of injuries/wounds. It is an OBJECTIVE method NOT subjective. JJ and the father of Spc. Johnson are making it a race issue and that is horrendous.

[Michael.SF.]

"The first black female POW who survived is about to be discharged and suffers the trauma, the emotional injury and has a 3-year-old daughter to raise. She deserves more."

Her having a daughter should have nothing to do with the amount of her disability payment. Apples and oranges

[Michael.SF.]

THE ARMY doesn't have ANYTHING to do with the rating of disability compensation

Unless it has changed from the '70's, the appeal board though is run by the respective branch of the service that the appealant is in (or is from).

An uncle of mine was the chairmen of such a board at Letterman Hospital from 1970-72 and saw far too many examples of low disability ratings and thus low payments.

He was a maverick, full bird and decorated Veteran of three wars and later said that was the hardest duty he had in his career.