Army pays $725 to WWII vet for unfair trial, imprisonment

Source: CNN

Samuel Snow thought when he got a check from the Pentagon that the Army was finally ready to give him the apology and the compensation he'd been denied for 63 years. He was wrong.

The Army imprisoned Snow in 1944 for a crime he says he couldn't have committed. The military overturned his conviction this year and sent him his back pay for the 15 months he spent in prison: $725.

Snow is one of just two defendants still alive from one of the biggest military trials of World War II.

Twenty-eight black soldiers were sent to prison after an Italian prisoner of war, Guglielmo Olivotto, was found hanged to death following a night of brawling at Fort Lawton in Seattle, Washington.

At a time when the military forces were segregated, 41 black soldiers were tried in one large group and were provided two attorneys to defend them all.



Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/12/12/soldier.back.pay/index.html

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Samuel Snow, 83, wants medical benefits and retirement pay from the Army since his conviction was overturned.

It was a crime the way this country treated African-American soldiers, and also the Japanese-American civilians and soldiers during WWII! And the Pentagon is continuing the crime against this man.

Is that all they can do!?!

All?

So why didn't Mr Snow get interest on this long standing debt? Probably because it would amount to a lot of money. Cheap BushCo bastards.

725$ just doesn't buy what it used to. Wasn't that the era of 5 cent loaves of bread and $4000 full-market-value homes.

Using a non-weighted average of interest rates from 1945 to 2005:

• at prime rate, Mr. Snow should be receiving a check for $41,389.81

• at prime+1, Mr. Snow should be receiving a check for $75,145.52

Not quite as much as KBR or Blackwater make in an hour, but a tidy sum.

These fuckers will follow every order to the letter no matter how ridiculous or asinine

And there should be pain and suffering charges as well- the humiliation of knowing you put on a uniform to defend your country and then instead get dishonorably thrown into prison - that should count for something as well.

See, if the military makes a mistake, even if it takes 60 years, they'll make it right. If the victim of the mistake lives that long. So if any of those folks being held in Guantanamo or being secretly renditioned turn out to be not the worst of the worst, the magnanimous United States government will pay them in full every penny of the wages they could have made as a shepherd or whatever they really did for a living in the Afghan highlands during the ongoing war between the U.S. and the Taliban.

God bless America, right Mr. Snow?

so all of you poor blacks rush down to your local recruiter and sign up for a tour in Iraq,my son said heck no I want go,I said bless you son.