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DavidAkin
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Dinning just released the three three letters he sent to the military — on Aug. 25, 2006, on Dec. 1, 2006, and again on April 25, 2007 — and supporting invoices.
The last letter, addressed to Prime Minister Harper, is written almost a year to the day after his son was killed. In it, he notes that while the next of kin of married soldiers are paid a death benefit, the next of kin of single soldiers, like his son, are paid nothing. This, Dinning says, would have helped with the $25,000 in expenses incurred to receive and bury his son. DND had, by this point, only reimbursed $6,400.
I have posted a PDF of the letters Dinning wrote -- they're worth a read -- back at my blog:
http://davidakin.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2007/5/30/2985375.html
The last letter, addressed to Prime Minister Harper, is written almost a year to the day after his son was killed. In it, he notes that while the next of kin of married soldiers are paid a death benefit, the next of kin of single soldiers, like his son, are paid nothing. This, Dinning says, would have helped with the $25,000 in expenses incurred to receive and bury his son. DND had, by this point, only reimbursed $6,400.
I have posted a PDF of the letters Dinning wrote -- they're worth a read -- back at my blog:
http://davidakin.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2007/5/30/2985375.html