152 Years Later, The VA Is Still Paying Out A Pension From The Civil War

Thanks for reminding us COL Lee Flemming that the Department of Veterans Affairs cuts a pension check every month for $73.13 to Irene Triplett, an 87-year-old who lives in Wilkes County, North Carolina. Why? Because she is the living daughter of a Civil War veteran who was born when her Confederate-turned-Union soldier Moses Triplett father was 84 years old.
Thank for alerting me, my friend SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL
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Yeah, I'd heard the story...one obv tends to wonder how they're related, and how old they are, as well as how old the get was when he'd had the family...they'd clearly never tell, however, I suppose there's a natural tendency to wonder about such aspects, if only to appease one's own insatiable curiosity, of course, you know?