another major impetus for starting the organization was that grubb's combat casualty benefits, as well as those of many other pow and mia wives, were delayed due to a pentagon policy of waiting to confirm that u.s. soldiers and pilots who had become pows or mias were not deserters, which was causing pow and mia families great financial hardship at the time. at the time that her benefits were being withheld, grubb had four children, including a newborn child. grubb was later instrumental in reversing this policy.