Posted on 05/09/2014 10:36:45 AM PDT by Theoria
ya, I know what you mean. He may have had lots of interesting times in his later years, with his young wife, LOL.
My great grandfather began getting a pension in 1892 (it was $8 a month). After his death, my great Grandmother got a pension, hers for some reason, was only $6 a month.
I wonder how much she gets? My great grandmother collected a pension after the death of my great grandfather, but I think it was only about $2 a month. As far as I know, the children got nothing. Perhaps that is because they were all married. My grandmother was 11th of 13 children who were orphaned when my great grandfather died of the black lung in the 1890s. My grandmother was only about 5. (After the War, he mined coal in PA.) “He was just a lad,” she would say when she cashed her check.
The rest of my family fought for the South, and I don’t think they got anything.
It would cost more to stop those payments than it would to just keep paying them.
It keeps a gubmint bureaucrat employed. That's the point of every program.
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