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To: Bucky Katt who wrote (14217)	9/26/2003 3:48:36 PM
From: Baton	Respond to of 48461

..(I am almost always early, long or short, so I do this to save me from me). It always hurts the most when you kick your own ass. Sorely, Baton

To: Bucky Katt who wrote (14217)	9/26/2003 8:33:28 PM
From: xcr600	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 48461

OT-- this is ridiculous. Monday, Sept. 15, 2003 Feds Charge Wounded GIs for Hospital Food Marine Staff Sgt. Bill Murwin suffered a partial amputation of his left foot after a grenade exploded inside his Humvee in Iraq. The feds picked up his hospital bills ... but charged him $243 for food. "Holy smokes," he said. "I'm in the hospital, and they're going to charge me for my food?" Only three days after he received his first bill for the meals he ate at a U.S. military hospital in Germany, he got an angry past-due notice threating to send his account to a collection agency. "Murwin, like thousands of other military personnel hospitalized every year, is expected to reimburse the government $8.10 per day for food. That's standard procedure because of a law Congress passed in 1981. But it has angered many military families over the years," the St. Petersburg Times reported. "When Rep. C.W. Bill Young, R-Largo, and his wife, Beverly, heard about the problem, they personally paid Murwin's tab. Then the congressman introduced a bill to change the rules." The congressman noted that the soldiers "were sent to war by their country. Many of them will be handicapped for the rest of their lives - and we're asking them to pay $8.10 a day for their food! There's something really wrong with that." The rationale for the rule: Most servicemen get $8.10 a day as a "basic allowance for subsistence." The government, fearing that double-dipping is going on, tries to take the allowance back from those so lucky as to be dining on hospital grub. "If I could be king for a day, I'd stop it in a minute," said Maj. Gen. Kevin C. Kiley, who commands the Army hospitals in the eastern United States. -------------- They give their lives and their limbs and they are charged for food? GMAFB... You would think a few sheckels from that 87bln (which by the way, $100mln is for 2000 garbage trucks) to cover hospital food.