These are comments from one of the Families of the Soldiers that were killed this weekend in Afghanistan and how the Stupidity of Congress is preventing these families there DEATH BENFITS : district: 1st Lt. Jennifer Moreno, 25, of San Diego; Sgt. Patrick Hawkins, 25, of Carlisle, Pa.; and Pfc. Cody Patterson, 24, of Philomath, Ore. “If Congress were trapped in a car that sunk down in a river, I would swim to the window, and I would look them all in the eye and say, ‘Suck water,’” said Randall Patterson, the father of Private Patterson. The father used an expletive to characterize members of Congress who “are still getting paid.” Patterson said that the military did pay for the flight he is taking Tuesday to Dover Air Force Base, Del., to retrieve his son’s body, and for his hotel once he arrives. The mother and brother of Peters, a special agent assigned to the Army’s 5th Military Police Battalion, based in Italy, said that they were too upset to talk. His step-grandfather, Peters Jerry, said that the sergeant was getting out of the military after this tour, so that he could be home more with his 20-month-old son. “It will be devastating,” Jerry said of the delay in the death gratuity. He said that he blamed Republicans and the Tea Party.
Posted on: Tue, 08 Oct 2013 18:05:52 +0000
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