Blind Dog Plays Fetch
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Still Paying for the Civil War
Each month, Irene Triplett collects $73.13 from the Department of Veterans Affairs, a pension payment for her father’s military service—in the Civil War.
More than 3 million men fought and 530,000 men died in the conflict between North and South. Pvt. Mose Triplett joined the rebels, deserted on the road to Gettysburg, defected to the Union and married so late in life to a woman so young that their daughter Irene is today 84 years old—and the last child of any Civil War veteran still on the VA benefits rolls.
Ms. Triplett’s pension, small as it is, stands as a reminder that war’s bills don’t stop coming when the guns fall silent. The VA is still paying benefits to 16 widows and children of veterans from the 1898 Spanish-American War.
The last U.S. World War I veteran died in 2011. But 4,038 widows, sons and daughters get monthly VA pension or other payments. The government’s annual tab for surviving family from those long-ago wars comes to $16.5 million.
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Cruise Ship Play Seven Nation Army On Its Horns
This kind of makes me want to watch a college football game all of a sudden since that song seems to be played at every college football game.
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Bryan College losing nearly 25% of faculty after ‘Adam and Eve’ controversy Read more: Bryan College losing nearly 25% of faculty after ‘Adam and Eve’ controversy
DAYTON, Tenn. — Student dissent is heating up in a controversy over beliefs about Adam and Eve at the Tennessee college named for one of creationism’s most famous defenders.
The dispute at Bryan College, named for William Jennings Bryan, began in February when trustees clarified the school’s statement of belief to state that Adam and Eve were historical people who were not created from previously existing life forms.
Since then, the conflict has escalated with a majority of professors voting “no confidence” in the school’s president, and students and alumni penning petitions in response to the controversy.
The Chattanooga Times Free Press reported that in a day of action last week, students wrote notes to the Board of Trustees, signed petitions, wore black armbands and expressed their opinions on social media, among other actions.
The protest was prompted by the loss of at least nine of the college’s 44 full-time professors, two of whom were fired after rejecting the college’s clarified statement of belief, and statements by Bryan College President Stephen Livesay, who has downplayed the controversy.
After a school fundraiser last month, Livesay told the Times Free Press that students are happy and “the reality is we are solid.”