Army Pays Wrongfully Convicted Vet $725

[unhappycamper]

Army Pays Wrongfully Convicted Vet $725
Associated Press | December 05, 2007

SEATTLE - In 1944, an Italian prisoner of war was found lynched following a night of rioting at Fort Lawton in Seattle.

Forty-three black soldiers were tried in one of the largest courts-martial of World War II. Of those, 28 were found guilty of rioting and sentenced to as many as 25 years in prison.

In late October, the Army's Board of Corrections of Military Records ruled the trial was "fundamentally unfair and improper." It said the soldiers should be given honorable discharges and compensated. About a week ago, one of the men, Samuel Snow, got a check.

For $725.

The Army said that was the amount he would have been paid between the time he was convicted and the time he was released from prison about 15 months later.

The compensation, says Rep. Jim McDermott, is far less than Snow deserves+. The amount - based on Snow's wages at the time of $50 a month - was not adjusted for inflation or to reflect any interest for the 63 years the Army withheld the money.


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[sam sarrha]

1. raciest problem... raciest solution... never ends

[TahitiNut]

2. Merely adjusting for inflation, 1944 to 2007, $725 becomes $8,600

$725 is insulting.