this. you re working on a book, working for the council on foreign relations. tell us how this can happen. what happens is washington has the luxury of shutting down and the war does not. a government shutdown and a war do not go together. part of the issue is that so few in this country have been affected by this war that we ve almost forgotten it s still going on. now we have a situation in which like the mother you just heard, you have families paying the absolute ultimate price who are finding out the death gratuity, the $100,000 they are supposed to get immediately upon hearing the news is now an i.o.u. by a country whose government is shut down. there are other payments we ve learned from the pentagon since our first reporting on the today show. there s the basic housing allowance of 12 months that is not going to be paid. burial benefits, burial in a private cemetery, which is $9,000. burial in the national cemetery,
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