Re: Compensation of survivors

[RuthWeiner@AOL.COM]

The "atomic workers" also have (had) life insurance (free) and medical 

benefits provided by the GOCO contractor.  They also had pension plans, which 

soldiers do not have unless they are in the armed forces for 20 years.  This 

compensation is or was over and above any of those. 


Moreover, what a soldier faces in battle is indescribably more horrible than 

anything any of these atomic workers ever had to face.  They worked in 

reasonably clean heated and cooled spaces.  They worked 8 hours a day, five 

days a week, or got paid overtime, courtesy of the OCAW, and then went home 

to peaceful households.  No one was shooting at them, lobbing grenades  and 

mortars at them, frying them in tanks, drowning them, starving and torturing 

them in defiance of the Geneva convention.  They did not see their friends 

and colleagues blown to bits before their eyes.  


And by the way, the compensation apparently extends to the families of former 

atomic workers who have already died after having lived into their 70s or 80s 

or 90s.

Ruth Weiner, Ph. D.

ruthweiner@aol.com