This situation all started in 1880 when Reconstruction was ended and Southern Democrats were allowed BACK into congress after the Civil War. A Northern Republican introduced a bill to give Union(northern) soldiers disability compensation for service during the Civil War. The Minority Whip a Southern Democrat asked what of the Confederate(southern) veteran shouldn't they now as US Citizens and their disability caused by the same war be eligible for Disability Compensation. Well the Majority Republican(northern) Congress wouldn't allow the southern war veterans disability so the souther congressman added an amendment to reduce the Retirement Pay for the Union (northern) soldiers one per one dollar amount of Disability compensation. That is how this disparity and wrong to our veterans was started by partisan politics over 140 years. If the Congressmen would have taken heed of General Lee's charge to his men after Appomattox's there wouldn't be this pay problem today. The Northern Republican Congress of 1880 carries all the blame for this problem today.
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[><] Dixie born and proud of it.
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