4/15/2005
This Is Classic
It's the bit at the end, in a list of miscellaneous Senate bidness (from the AP story):

In other action on the spending bill, the Senate voted to:

Prohibit military hospitals from charging soldiers wounded in Iraq or Afghanistan for meals.

Change the name of the death benefit given to soldiers' families from "death gratuity" to "fallen hero compensation."

Provide $5 million to promote democracy in Lebanon.

OK, I admit that "death gratuity" doesn't do it for me either. Sort of has an offhand sound to it. But "fallen hero compensation." Really? All of them?
 
# by Chris @ 11:13 AM