Army spouses, kids can apply now for millions of dollars in scholarships

This story reminds me of the time my youngest daughter was applying for college scholarships. One day she appeared at my office door, visibly upset with me. What now, I wondered. She had just learned that children of Purple Heart recipients were entitled to a stipend (I don't know if that's still true).

She had heard me tell the story of the time I refused a Purple Heart. A company commander almost had me shot when he maneuvered the company on line and opened fire on a wood line where he had forgotten that I was scouting with four men. Luckily, a platoon leader remembered and sent a runner to warn me and I got out of the way by the skin of my teeth. Unfortunately I ran afoul of some barbed wire in the scramble and "suffered" a few minor lacerations.

The captain attempted to calm me down as I jumped up and down in front of him cursing, by offering to put me in for a Purple Heart. I told him to shove it.

Obviously my "honesty" cost my daughter that stipend. Still, I have wondered in the years since if she really would have preferred for me to "take one" for her college education (only kidding, I think)