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Like millions of other Americans, Irene Triplett of North Carolina receives a monthly government payment as a matter of law. However, unlike Social Security and other entitlement programs which were enacted by Democrats, Ms. Triplett's source of funds was championed by a Republican--Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln advocated in his Second Inaugural Address that all Americans should care for Civil War veterans and their survivors. "With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations."
Yes, that is correct. Irene Triplett is getting approximately $75 a month from the Department of Veterans Affairs through a Civil War pension. The enabling legislation provided funds not only for Civil War veterans but also their surviving spouses and children. Ms. Triplett legally qualifies as a surviving child of Civil War veteran Moses (or, depending on the source of information, Mose) Triplett, who was born in 1846. Moses started out fighting for the Confederacy, but he deserted prior to the Battle of Gettysburg and thereafter enlisted with the Union Army.
Moses survived the war and, in due course, married. His first wife died in the 1920s. Moses remarried in 1924 to a woman 50 years younger than him and sired Irene, who was born in 1930. Moses Triplett died in 1938.
For more information on the Tripletts and how they have contributed to the massive national debt of the USA, click here.
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