Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/06/03/last-person-collecting-a-civil.html
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Man, it feels wrong that her last days were days like these.
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If only the legacies of what prompted that war could be closed out as easily as this.
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Both mother and daughter suffered from mental disabilities. Irene Triplett recalled a tough childhood in the North Carolina mountains, beaten by teachers at school and parents at home.
“I didn’t care for neither one of them, to tell you the truth about it,” she told The Wall Street Journal in 2014. “I wanted to get away from both of them. I wanted to get me a house and crawl in it all by myself.”
Jesus. Rest in peace, lady, you sure as hell earned it.
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Oh, lord, I’m just imagining her dealing with the VA about her benefits. What’s the veteran’s service number? Social Security Number? Do you have his original discharge form DD215?
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So, they shut down that department? How many civil servants lost their jobs?
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Pretty sure the VA is still going to stick around for some time yet.
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Limp along, you mean, barely caring for vets.
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I was wondering how someone from NC would be getting a veteran’s pension:
Ms. Triplett’s father, Mose Triplett, started fighting in the war for the Confederacy, but defected to the North in 1863.
Smart man, on a number of levels.
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Came for…
Relieved to see it.
Thanks.
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