POSTHUMOUS CITIZENSHIP

Smythe's World links to an LA Times article and agrees that granting posthumous citizenship for soldies killed in action is a good thing. According to the LA Times article, a CA state legislator is pushing for citizenship for all who obtain honorable discharges as well.

This story is really important, because it shows that the demands of wartime can create pressures for the granting of rights and benefits to groups who serve in the military. And I'm not talking about the cynical attempt by the Republicans in the House to link wartime service with the President's tax cut plans (see Chuck Grassley's comments from a recent San Francisco Chronicle article:

But Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, said, "When those men and women come home from the battlefield, we want to grow the economy so those men and women will have jobs."