Punkofnice, I agree. Watchtower stole our lives from us. It was a criminal act. I did eventually go to college. I got a paralegal degree. But no one would hire me as a paralegal, because I was too old. This is what some of the younger ones, who woke up while still young and strong, don't understand. Watchtower stole not only those early adult years... when we were full of life, dreams, and energy, ... but it also doomed us to live out our later years eeking out a living.
When a person, through a travesty of justice, is wrongly convicted and later found innocent, in the US, that person can sue the government and receive monetary compensation. The government can't give them those years of life back, but they at least give them $money$ as compensation,... sometimes $50,000 or more,... for the wrong that the government did to them. Watchtower doesn't even give an apology.