Recently, I was very pissed off at these phrases in the article:
‘On Aug. 7, Feinberg issued his first award, $1.04 million to the family of an unmarried recent college graduate who earned $60,000 a year and died at the World Trade Center. The family’s attorney, Roberta Gordon, said that her clients were not happy. They could never be happy. But they thought that Feinberg’s award was “eminently fair.” One down, 3,199 cases to go.’
The article spoke highly of these couples, recommending that we need to do more. I say differently. Should I, or any other American soldier die in battle as they do so often, we get a flag folded in a triangle mailed to my mother and a letter of grievance and a brief unclassified sentence or two regarding not the specific battle I was engaged in, but the entire freaken war. Saying how I died in honor and that my actions are ‘in keeping with the standards and morals of the United States Army values.’ No money. This guy is not married, probably 22, fresh out of college, ready to go to grad school, who happened to get real lucky or got hookups to a great job paying 60 grand. He had no wife, no kids. He was young. If my mother died in world trade center and they offered billions of dollars to compensate, I would say how dare you put a price on my mother’s soul, just give me her body back, you fools. 1.04 millions dollars. Can you imagine a 50 year old man that was probably gonna die sooner or later anyway, in his office, wondering about how to kill himself, die in the September incident? How much money would a business man making 100 grand a year or more, with wives and kids, be compensated for? And the more interesting question for me would be, would the wives battle over who gets how much of the money, if at all? Since when did we put a price on our civilian heads? Did we do that during World War II? They say we’re in war, but I say differently. Military personnel are engaged in battles everyday, trying to protect whatever freedom we have left in this country, keeping up their motivation thinking about US. Really, us, that’s why they do it, go through training only .0001 percent of the population even qualify to try out for. They’re behind the enemy lines, making headlines in the news as ‘earthquakes’ or ‘tornados’ or ‘wildfires’ that cannot be declassified. And more of them die like that than we know of. Do they receive millions of dollars? No. Does that mean that whatever they’re trying to protect, like the freedom of guys not too unlike the college graduate receiving 1.04 million dollars, is worth more than their lives? Who is in the position to judge? Apparently, this Feinberg fellow is, and whoever he hired. And the Americans believe that he is doing a ‘sufficient’ job. How much money DID this family believe their kid was worth? Did they DEPEND on this kid to feed them, clothe them? Probably not, and if they did, which is highly unlikely since he just went through college, shame on this family, they should have known better. They could never be happy, true. But hopefully, with their million dollar mansion, they will forever remain shrouded with sorrow and misery.
One simple day. Art class from 9:30 till 12:30, lunch, then sleep from 2 till 6, eat dinner, go online, go to sleep early for church. Yup, that’s it, one sentence basically wraps it up.