Interesting

I see NASA is paying $26 Million to survivors of the 2003 Columbia disaster.

That works out to about $3.71 million per family.

I'm a NASA/spaceflight nerd, one who mourns the loss of these men and women in their pursuit of spaceflight and science.

But is there a real difference between them and the 19-year-old Private who goes to Iraq and gets killed?

The families of our combat dead certainly don't get $3.71 million each.

Think about it.