This in today’s paper:
World War I, which ended 94 years ago, continues to cost taxpayers about $20 million per year. World War II? $5 billion.
Of the 2,289 survivors drawing cash linked to WWI, about one-third are spouses and dozens of them are over 100 years in age.
Some of the recipients are curious: 47 of the spouses are under the age of 80, meaning they weren’t born until years after the war ended. Many of those women were in their 20s and 30s when their aging spouses died in the 1960s and 1970s, and they’ve been drawing the monthly payments since.
Gold diggers who marry war vets?? Wow.
Thoughts?