Word: gi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Asked how the GI's were doing on their limited funds, she answered, "They don't". Without war savings, support from home, or money earned by their wives, it would be imposible by her calculations for them to stay in college...
...prevalence of GI clothing, the comparative scarcity of civilian garb, and the popularity of parka jackets made the move advisable, according to William C. Bradford, secretary of the Union...
...only the exceptional family that does not badly need its ninety dollars per month to help meet expenses, or which would buy luxury or semi-luxury goods even if its allotment were upped considerably. For this reason and also because veterans with children were the forgotten men of the GI bill, an increased allotment for this group is reasonable and desirable. Such an increase, instead of distorting the purpose of the GI bill, would help to distribute its benefits more fairly...
...this argument for increased allotments slips too easily over the question of whether the benefits of the GI bill were intended to be a bonus or a contract. Morally, the nation owes the veterans nothing. The men who served their country were protecting themselves, their families, their homes, and their future from a detestable fate which threatened every individual soldier. The whole nation fought the war, and those who were best suited for combat were sent into uniform. The representatives of a grateful nation granted certain benefits to veterans, not as a dutiful remuneration, but simply as a gesture...
...That the GI bill was intended to be a freely given bonus is evident from its extensive provisions, which offer aid to almost every veteran--student, home builder, business man, or jobless. The only class that is slighted is the married student with children, who receives the same ninety dollars per month as the married student with no one but his wife to support. A logical case can be advanced for the justness of upping the allotment of GI scholars with children, and in fairness to this group, which was ignored in the original GI bill, such an adjustment should...