Thank you for the ping; we honor our troops and to those Freepers who asked for our involvement - we thank you for letting us participate.
Welcome, Peach! And, thank you for coming by to help us celebrate our very deserving featured FReeper today.
Evening. Great stuff you are doing for the troops.
While honoring our troops, remember they will all be veterans some day, if they make it. Some of these veterans will retire after 20 or more years, some disabled. Under current law, a retired disabled veteran is forced to pay for his or her own disability. How does this work? The veteran's earned retirement pay is reduced dollar for dollar by the amount of any VA disability compensation. Hard to believe, huh.
This law was spearheaded by a Southern Senator in the 1890's who wanted to punish retiring Yankee soldiers. It's still on the books!
You can write to your congresscritter about it. The issue is before the Congress as soon as they get back to Washington. Until then, I add only this cartoon:
