"It made me angry, to be honest about it," Wilson said. "What about 78? What about 79? What about all those other years that went by, and stuff was going on? I can't figure out how they can come to that conclusion."
"What they did to these young men was take their futures away," said state Rep. Michelle Salzman, R-Escambia County, who filed the compensation bill that passed unanimously during the 2024 legislative session.
The bill's resounding success followed 16 years of failed attempts at similar legislation by other lawmakers.
WPTV asked Salzman in January why 1975 was the cutoff.