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.
