Re: Radiation Records Being Investigated

[Muckerheide <muckerheide@mediaone.net>]

And Post Office employees - risk getting shot by disgruntled Post
Office employees. :-)


"Frank R. Borger_(FRB)" wrote:
> 
> Statistically, workers in the retail trade, (fast food, liquor, gas stations, etc) are
> more likely to suffer injury or death mainly due to hold-ups.
> 
> Maybe they should be compensated too????
> 
> >>> Bernard L Cohen <blc+@pitt.edu> March 27, 2000 10:55 >>>
> 
> On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Ron L. Kathren wrote:
> 
> > Even though this might result in some who were not injured being
> > compensated, it would seem appropriate as it will compensate those who are
> > most likely to have been injured.
> 
>         --Discussions like this make me wonder why no one is concerned
> with compensating the hundreds of thousands of American soldiers, sailors,
> and airmen who were killed and seriously injured in Morld War II, Korea,
> and Vietnam. No one asked them if they wanted to be exposed to the
> infinitely more dangerous conditions than the workers under discussion,
> and they received very low wages. Even those permanently disabled get
> very meager allowances.
>         If people have forgotten what these men went through, I recommend
> Stephen Ambrose's book "Citizen Soldiers".
> 
>  >
> Bernard L. Cohen
> Physics Dept.
> University of Pittsburgh
> Pittsburgh, PA 15260
> Tel: (412)624-9245
> Fax: (412)624-9163
> e-mail: blc+@pitt.edu
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