by Alain Jehlen in Uncategorized
Posted on May 28, 2008 at 10:29 pm
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Take a look at the strong article by Somerville veteran Matt McLaughlin in the Somerville News. It’s about the controversy over Sen. James Webb’s bill to restore the GI Bill to what it was when FDR signed it during World War II: a ticket to college for American veterans.
Matt describes how GI benefits have shrunk drastically.
Pres. Bush said on Memorial Day that today’s vets are as good as the “greatest generation” that fought WWII. But he doesn’t want them to have the same benefits as WWII soldiers because he thinks they’ll go to college and make better lives for themselves and their families instead of re-enlisting to fight his war.
A while back, we heard the claim that you can’t support the soldiers without supporting the mission. Some of us felt that keeping soldiers stuck in a war zone was not necessarily “support.” Webb’s bill is a clear demonstration of the difference: Those whose priority is the mission, not the soldiers, don’t want to reward veterans with a college education. Those who support the soldiers, not the war, do.
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Wow. With or without help from the GI bill, this veteran made himself one heck of a writer.
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Matt..Well said. Support the Soldiers=Support our countries future. If we stand behind the brave young men and women who are out there doing the job our country asks them to do.. we will continue to have our best and brightest voluntarily joining the service of our nation. If we turn our backs on our veterans we have no one but ourselves to blame when no one wants to stand up for freedom.
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