For starters....our Soldier's family get $6,000??????????This is outrageous if true?
That is probably right. It depends very much on which side of the PC divide you give you life. After 911 it was apostasy to suggest withholding of every form of sympathy and support for this specific group of victims - Most notably in the lavishing of enormous amounts of money to each family. Meanwhile, the DOD goes after amputees of the War for $650 in combat pay overpayment.
911 set a number of very unhealthy and unfair precedents and it was all done by spineless PC Pols who would not say NO to any of these outlandish arrangements. This 'Memorial' and the endless BS associated with it is just a continuation of that flawed process IMHO.