Bush aims to rally nation in State of the Union address
AP analysis notes President Bush will urge Congress for more war funding as U S deaths and costs rise amid wartime unease. The piece compares Bush’s challenge to F D Roosevelt’s wartime morale messaging and recalls Truman’s Korea-era dip in support.
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Pentagon To Propose Large Increase In Death Benefits
The administration would raise the death gratuity from 12420 to 100000 and add 150000 in life insurance for service members killed in Iraq Afghanistan and other combat zones Retroactive to October 7 2001 the plan also pays premiums on the extra 150000 life coverage with surviving spouses receiving the 100000 gratuity.
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