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"Law on back pay proposed in Fort Lawton case"

"Law on back pay proposed in Fort Lawton case": The Seattle Times today contains an article that begins, "Samuel Snow got a check from the Pentagon after the Army announced last October it would overturn convictions of Snow and 27 other African-American soldiers wrongly tried for rioting at Seattle's Fort Lawton in 1944. The check was for $725 -- the amount of pay that Snow, now 82, lost while serving a year in an Army lockup. Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Seattle, and Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., have introduced legislation to make the military pay much more to Snow and the other surviving Fort Lawton soldier, and to the families of those who have died since the convictions. The legislation would calculate the back pay in current dollars with interest. That could change the $725 sent to Snow to about $88,000, according to Nelson's office."

Full post as published by How Appealing on February 04, 2008 (boomark / email).