Word: vietvets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...This year, at least 900,000 more will muster out-all of them to face an adjustment problem unique among U.S. war vets. The men who fought in World Wars I and II and Korea found gratitude and the traditional heroes' welcome awaiting them at home; the Vietvet returns with no fanfare to a nation whose response ranges from a noncommittal "Oh, you're back?" to-in some cases-downright hostility...
Great Disparity. Even in terms of Government-financed veterans' benefits, the Vietvet makes out worse than his counterparts of earlier wars. Whereas the World War II vet who wanted to further his education got full tuition, fees and book costs plus $75-a-month living allowance, the returnee from Viet Nam can expect a maximum of only $130 a month to cover everything. Currently, there are 450,000 returnees receiving G.I. schooling benefits. They enjoy slightly brighter job prospects than did their predecessors, largely because the U.S. economy is stronger than ever before. Last year the U.S. Employment Service...
...Government is gearing up programs that should make the Vietvet's return smoother than Witherspoon's. Project Transition, set up at Fort Knox by the Defense Department, is cooperating with industry to give vets training in everything from mathematics to data processing, and has already placed some Viet Nam veterans in jobs ranging from postal clerks to oil-company salesmen. President Johnson hopes to recruit Negro vets as ghetto schoolteachers, and a bill to that end is being drafted for presentation this year...