Burial Benefits Curtailed Through Shutdown

This is just one more reason I do not believe in young men fighting rich old men's wars, but I digress.  Hopefully now with a larger credit limit, our government will at least see fit to honor their promise to these grieving families.

Shannon Collins, mother of fallen soldier  http://www.today.com/news/shutdown-denies-death-benefits-families-fallen-soldiers-8C11355842

http://www.wall-street.com/shutdown-denies-100000-gratuity-to-families-of-killed-soldiers-in-afghanistan/

Closer to home:  http://www.ozarksfirst.com/story/friends-rally-to-help-family-of-slain-ozarks-soldier/d/story/81oCKFz35UOOdAF7FwD-Vw

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/10/08/204720/four-slain-soldiers-families-cant.html

We need to keep these families in our prayers, as well as the awareness that this could happen again in less than three months.

Besides unity in government, which has obviously not happened; we were promised our troops would be home in a year.