Originally posted by Eagler
sounds like some group gets to tour Europe every year living it up on $100,000,000
me thinks those MIA's would want the money spent on something for the living ie VA hosiptal needs
I would not want to tell the family of a soldier who was missing that it was not worth spending money to find him and bring him home to them. Both the soldier and the family have made a sacrifice that is hard to put a price on in mere dollars. My grandmother's house had a blue star for my father, and a gold star for his brother, in World War II. They won't ever be bringing my uncle home to his family he's under a lot of water off an island in the Pacific.
I've met and corresponded with the families of the missing. I've seen their reactions, and heard from them, when their missing soldier is found. I'm not real sure I could put a price on it.
I happen to know a guy who goes on these details to find MIAs. I bet you wouldn't care too much for it. Unless of course you'd enjoy going on what amounts to a hardcore training mission for the Seals. He is a Seal, and thats what he compared some of the trips to. He's going back to Vietnam before he rotates back into his Seal unit.
Suffice to say the search for MIAs is much like a funeral. A funeral is not for the dead, it is for the living.
And there's a lot more money truly wasted on many things that can and should be spent on things like the VA. Believe me, with my father in a VA nursing home, I have strong enough feelings about that as well.