{"id":110415,"date":"2016-03-10T22:52:10","date_gmt":"2016-03-10T22:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/03\/10\/daughter-of-civil-war-vet-still-getting-a-pension\/"},"modified":"2016-03-10T22:52:10","modified_gmt":"2016-03-10T22:52:10","slug":"daughter-of-civil-war-vet-still-getting-a-pension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/03\/10\/daughter-of-civil-war-vet-still-getting-a-pension\/","title":{"rendered":"Daughter of Civil War vet still getting a pension"},"content":{"rendered":"

jkottke<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Private Mose Triplett was 19 when the Civil War ended in 1865. Later in life, he married a woman 50 years younger than him and, in 1930, they had a daughter Irene. Irene Triplett is now in her mid-eighties and gets a monthly benefit check from US Department of Veterans Affairs<\/a> for her father\u2019s service so many years before.<\/p>\n

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Eric Shinseki, the secretary of Veterans Affairs, often cites President Abraham Lincoln\u2019s call, in his second inaugural address, for Americans \u201cto care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe promises of President Abraham Lincoln are being delivered, 150 years later, by President Barack Obama, \u201d Secretary Shinseki said in a speech last fall. \u201cAnd the same will be true 100 years from now-the promises of this president will be delivered by a future president, as yet unborn.\u201d<\/p>\n

A declaration of war sets in motion expenditures that can span centuries, whether the veterans themselves were heroes, cowards or something in between.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This story is from 2014, but I looked for Triplett\u2019s obituary and found nothing, so I\u2019m assuming she\u2019s still alive and collecting that pension. See also The Great Span<\/a>. (via @mikekarlesky<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

jkottke: Private Mose Triplett was 19 when the Civil War ended in 1865. Later in life, he married a woman 50 years younger than him and, in 1930, they had a daughter Irene. Irene Triplett is now in her mid-eighties and gets a monthly benefit check from US Department of Veterans Affairs for her father\u2019s … <\/p>\n

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