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...Depending on his condition, a Sawtelle patient may see a first-run movie, bowl, shoot pool, watch night baseball, attend church, get married, and be buried just a bugle call away from his buddies-all without leaving the hospital grounds. Says one 82-year-old Spanish-American War vet: "My boy, we're not just satisfied here. We're contented. I can't say enough good things for everyone...
...tough vet felt the same way-only more so. He was Charles C. Anderson, a St. Louis boy whose split home and large family forced him to go to work when he was twelve. In 1947, when he was 17, he at last found a home-in the Army...
Although the rise from 74 to 156 in the College may be the largest percentage increase, Lawson said the biggest numerical boost is in the Business School, where the vet total soared to 482 from 289. Entire enrollment at the Business School...
...vets have taken free schooling. Cost to the Government: $18.7 billion. A Korean-war vet with dependents gets $160 a month while studying...
...Sickness & Age. By far the biggest vet programs are for health and pensions. The VA operates 170 hospitals with 117,000 beds, 4,160 doctors, 904 dentists and 13,799 nurses. Bill for the postwar hospital-building program: $750 million. Hospital and medical care cost $4 billion since 1947 and now runs $600 million a year. The American Medical Association, wary of "socialized medicine," criticizes the free care given those vets with no service-connected ailment or injury. According to the General Accounting Office, the service-connected cases cared for by the VA are outnumbered about...