Tell the truth...obviously you have never been in the service.  Servicemen and women will put their lives on the line so that you can have the freedoms that you do.  The defend our country and are sent to other countries at the direction of the pentagon.  They deserve everything they have gotten.  Congress on the other hand is another story.  When congress was first appointed, they were unpaid/volunteer members who were selected each year.  They went in and made decisions, then went home to their lives with nothing to show for it, but a piece of paper.  Nowadays, you have congressmen and women going in with nothing, and after their first appointment they leave their with a huge pension, free health care for life and usually a million dollars or so more than what they went in with.  Our servicemen and women do not receive that type of payout and their work more dangerous.  So I say let the servicemen and women keep the bonus, and take it out of congressmen and women's pay.