At 11:30 AM 04/05/2002 -0800, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
>Hmm, that's about 5x what Union Carbide paid for dead Bhopal Indians...
They were paying for them wholesale, after the fact.
>but a real bargain compared to many US wrongful-death lawsuits.
>What kind of payback does the USG pay to families of deceased soldiers?
A flag, and occasionally a cemetary plot in Virginia if they want one,
and a lot of hype about how they were a heroic martyr for their country,
back when hype about being a heroic martyr was supposed to be positive.
