http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/05/08/11598537-women-battle-over-who-gets-recognized-as-dead-soldiers-wife#comments Soldier dies in rollover accident in Afghanistan. Woman #2, who was living with him most recently, and believing she was his wife, gets to attend funeral but otherwise gets bupkis. She is not happy.
Woman #1, who he stopped living with at least three years ago was never divorced from him. She meets woman #2 at funeral. She also gets survivor benefits and flag. No report on how she feels.
Woman #3, who supplied half the genes for a child, also attends the funeral. She never thought she was married to the dude. She met #1 and #2 at the funeral. No report on how she feels about any of the goings on or the death of the baby-daddy,
Comments re: news article seem to be divided between social-democrat leeches who think #2 ought to get all the bennies because she was the last one to have lived with him and thought she was married to him, and fascists who insist on looking at what the law(s) say and then following that course, which is what the Army did in giving all the bennies and the flag to #1.
skidmark is wondering if it is worthwhile to compile a list of all those in need of a serious dope-slap and set up a road trip to deliver same, or if it would be better to franchise the dope-slapping.
stay safe.