9/11 workers and legal settlement

Why is it that people who worked on the site that use to hold the World Trade Center are about to receive a $657 million settlement? Were these people not either doing their job or volunteering to do a job that was not theirs? Do not get me wrong, I am thankful for all that these people did, but their is another segment of society who cannot receive a settlement when they die or are injured. This segment is called the U.S. military.

Soldiers, Marines and some seamen and airmen go to war for this country which I personally, although I am biased, believe is a far more noble cause cannot sue the government when they become a casualty of war. I am not just talking about those that were killed of wounded. I am talking about every man and woman that experienced combat.

While military men and women do have a $400,000 life insurance policy, that only covers the dead. What about those that came back wounded, mentally traumatized or just injured from the strain of war on the body? There is disability, but that does not amount to much when, unlike most of the plaintiffs in this case, can no longer hold down a job. One hundred percent disability is a nice chunk of change, but most veterans never get that much.

I personally receive 60 percent disability which is less than a thousand dollars a month, not enough to live on unless one is single and lives with his grandma. I was not wounded, but I came back crazier than a shit-house rat. My goal when I go out, is not to hang out with friends or meet a woman, it is not to cut anyone’s throat. As of yet I have been unable to hold down a job, my credits gone down the tubes, and I live with my grandma. I am very capable of getting things done despite my faults, but many of my brethren are far beyond that point.

These plaintiffs in this case as it is now will receive almost $70,000 a piece, and maybe they deserve it. Something needs to change where men and women that commit themselves to fighting for their country should receive a nice lump sum of money when they get out of the military. They commit their lives to this country sometimes doing multiple year long tours in a war zone. Most of the plaintiffs in this case worked a few weeks.

The point is that these people, while they did a good thing, did not do nearly that of the veterans that served in the War on Terror, so instead of just giving them money give it to the veterans as well.