...A Little Late, Maybe?

On Thursday, it finally became easier for veterans of the Perian Gulf war, a war fought in 1991, 19 years ago, to recieve diablility benifits for diseases that they have been living with for the past almost two decades. Now, they can qualify by

showing only that they served in one of those conflicts and suffer from any of nine diseases, including malaria, West Nile virus...brucellosis, campylobacter jejuni, coxiella burnetii, mycobacterium tuberculosis, nontyphoid, salmonella, shigella and visceral leishmaniasis.

Personally, I think it is terrible that the veterans have had to wait almost twenty years for the government to make it more possible to get compensation for their years of suffering. I believe that it should always be that easy to get disability if you have served and been injured, that is what disability is for, and it should be freely given to those who need it, not to only those who can get the correct paperwork. But...better late than never!