Well, it doesn't make for acceptable dinner conversation, but we need to briefly address this: Wiccan symbol OK for soldiers' graves
Good. Not a moment too soon.
I don't give a shit if a servicemember wants a damn smiley face or paw print or the Skoal Bandit on their tombstone.
You take that oath, that long-ass plane ride, you go on that bad-feeling mission and come home under a flag...I'll chisel the damn Boston Red Sox logo on your headstone myself.
The only thing to disapprove of about this story is that it took legal action to make it happen.
The VA sought the settlement in the interest of the families involved and to save taxpayers the expense of further litigation, VA spokesman Matt Burns said. The agency also agreed to pay $225,000 in attorneys' fees and costs.
Huh. If the VA hadn't decided to be a pain in the ass about this, that would have paid for...well, the real good prosthetic legs, it appears, go for around 40 grand. So that's five of these babies, and maybe the extra $25,000 could have paid for...I dunno...nicer chairs in the waiting rooms in some VA hospital in Nebraska.
Way to use those tax dollars, VA! I mean, who could argue with you about fighting over a headstone symbol?
By the way, obscure symbols that the VA had already decided were OK include:
That's the symbol of SOKA GAKKAI INTERNATIONAL - USA.
Or we have this one:
That's the Church of World Messianity.
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