SPENDING: $2M on crab legs a great deal
In a March 13 letter, Alyssa Swartz juxtaposed Pentagon spending on luxury foods and ice cream machines against spending for those that collect entitlements paid for by taxpayers. What Alyssa didn't seem to understand is that these luxury items are provided to deployed troops, often shortly before they receive bad news.
My brothers, father, grandfathers, uncles and many cousins ate tens of thousands of dollars worth of the exact types of luxury food Alyssa listed before: learning their deployments were being extended, being sent on a particularly dangerous mission or experiencing similarly challenging events.
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