Any day now will be a story about a wounded soldier who’s sent a bill for having a bullet removed from his chest. We taxpayers shouldn’t have to foot the bill. It was his fault he didn’t duck, after all.
Freedom isn’t free and apparently neither are Purple Hearts. As retired Sergeant Major in the Army Rob Dickerson found out, they too can come with a price.
“C.O.D. Is how I received my Purple Heart,” retired Army Sergeant Major Rob Dickerson said.
Dickerson, who was seriously wounded in a rocket blast while serving in Iraq in 2007, finally got his Purple Heart in the mail, four years late, and on top of it all was billed over $21.00 for postage. He couldn’t believe it.
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Dickerson did get an apology and a money order for his out of pocket costs, but he says he couldn’t cash it, because it was made out to Roy Dirksen, not Rob Dickerson.
#19–Animby?==ha, ha. So you really are that conservative and partisan huh? Not to say what your are thinking about isn’t correct, you have identified relevant symptoms, but is your diagnosis correct? No more history required, no further differentials need be applied?
Experience, education, a passion for the truth should lead the serious components within each one of us to recognize the uncertainty of diagnosing anything.
Two of my favorite fictions forms: going back to the past to change things for the better, and being granted 1-2-3 wishes. I love those shows. Pure fiction but so much for us to learn there.
Do men make history or merely ride the wave? What is the “true” responsibility of Bush on our current woes? The true responsibility of the 30 years Republican sway on public policy? The silent majority reading science fiction instead of marching in the steets?
“If I could change back time…..”//// One of Cher’s best. Forget what she was(n’t) wearing at the time.
Dogma: its good to push a view but what do we really think?
I’m waiting to hear the story of some US soldier, wounded by “friendly fire”, getting a bill for the ordinance his body made off with. “Hey, that’s government property you got in your leg. Shrapnel costs money.”
I’m also waiting to hear “Cash for Bullets”. When lead becomes the next “valuable metal” that they offer Fiat money for. Mostly to get all the bullets out of the civils’ dangerous hands.