Thanks for posting an article that backs up my assertion...and proves you wrong again. Perhaps you should consider actually reading your quotes before you post them. There is nothing in the article that says the administration ever proposed cutting the death benefit. In fact, the administration, albeit grudgingly, doubled it.
Were you as concerned when the Clinton adminstration paid half as much to the families of soldiers dragged through the streets of Somalia or who died on the Cole....while giving their killers a pass?
The military provides very low cost life insurance to any soldier who does not intentionally decline in writing. The death benefit is intended to keep the family afloat temporarily until the insurance can be collected. It was never meant to be a windfall or to compensate a family for losing a soldier.
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