LOL

[random_walker]

I can sort of see the government's side; however you'd think that the thank-you letter from a Maj. Gen. would go a long way?

Really, it's just the same as this: I wouldn't bring a spare home coffeemaker to replace a broken one at the office. Am I afraid of liability? Hell no. But it would be weird - they wouldn't actually want it, since it would

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[suicide_sam_e]

$30k is never worthless. (Well, it might be in another ten years, but that's a different contingency argument.) Plus, one has to factor in that it is the right strata of marble, correct dimensions, and the like

[random_walker]

That is interesting. At least one of the anonymous soldier's descendants would probably be a convicted (or even suspected) felon right? We could match him up, then, through the state and FBI databases. Ha. That would rile some people up no doubt.

And anyway, if the government is willing to eat the loss if there is a flaw in the stone, it would also be willing to eat the loss of not taking the donation in the first place.

I don't think this has much to do with it being the tomb of the anonymous soldier - it could be anything.

[suicide_sam_e]

So far as your tainted replacement coffee maker goes, I think that is a limited feeling. Small business owners mingle their tools/materials between work and home use all of the time. (Right now I'm using the Welky! Pub computer.) This becomes less common with bigger-ticket items, like reactors/public lands and other things not usually owned privately. But the more likely something is to impact an employee's daily work, the more likely they are to substitute or improve upon it with something of their own. (Unless they can get work to furnish it.) Conversely, the more an employee depends on a specific tool (or other aspect of their job) the more likely they are to come up with improvements, personal modifications/tweaks, ideas relating to the thing, and also just plain more likely to attempt to maintain and learn about the thing

[random_walker]

I understand that unauthorized maintenance of your rifle is practically encouraged by the military (this comes from a weird pamphlet I found on boingboing, about maintaining your girlfriend the M-16). The army's not a business though

[suicide_sam_e]

The Army is like a business. Like a megacorporation that does not produce products so much as craters and skilled personnel