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VETERANS, CLOSE RANKS * " EXTEND A EXPAND ™G.I.BILL H Payment of All School Expenses plus Decent Living Allowance ! * An End to All G.I. Bill Restrictions! *A/o Cutoff in the G.I. Bill I NX* #k few - '" Chicago in Detroit tifrwim Mm. in New York City VETS! TODAY WE ARE FACING A DAMN SERIOUS SITUATION. WE HAVE TWO CHOICES: EITHER WE STAND UP AND FIGHT, OR WE'LL BE CRUSHED. Most of us never thought it would be this bad as we marked our days off on the short-timers calendar. But after getting discharged we found ourselves on another operation — Operation Hard Times. While we were in the military, we looked forward to the day we got out because we thought it would be an improvement over the day-to-day hassles of military life. No one argues that it's not good without having NCO's and Officers on our backs day and night, but the way we have to live and the conditions we face sure aren't what we expected. When the rich sent us off to fight in their war in Vietnam, when they needed us to keep their business interests nice and safe for them, they promised us the sky; they delivered little. The truth is that they didn't care for us one bit — they used us and then they threw us away. Sure we got some benefits, and we fought for them too, but it's a nightmare trying to get them and keep what little scraps they throw us. EXTEND AND EXPAND THE GIBILL The latest and biggest attack on vets is the cuts that keep coming down on the GI Bill. On Memorial Day, 1976, the day that the VFW and American Legion were parading up and down the streets saying how great it is to fight for the rich man, 3. 7 million of us vets, discharged from 1954- 1966, w'ere bounced off the GI Bill. Nearly half a million of these vets were in school at the time. Many of these vets, members of VVAW or vets we go to school with, held VA certificates of eligibility for many more months of school, but they received no warning until letter came in the mail with the bad news--no more GI Bill for you! That cut was just the beginning of what they have in store for us. Current legislation floating around Congress tells a grim tale of things to come^^y^rf^brr^^n elude: plans to cut off the (Jl^^imtKF^^^^t^tff \ ■ ■, thi I i /ice after January 1976; cttLug twMjS&i^^ft^l i gibil it# f< >r the Bill from 10 years to ■years: a/id |»A|^other cfcs (see the separate section om the G^P™l*For mor^^j|p^). That's one side ■£ th^^tjg^NWIgSyi^ the O&A side is sneakier. The VA is r w ^* w i 11W tSZ^^W^1 K! ■ i < >\ir attendance in many schools .^frfWrWnHke the roll call in the military, if they don't like the results, you're off the GI Bill. In some schools if the VA doesn't like your grade average (taken in spot checks), they decide what courses you should Continued on Page 7.
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Title | Veterans, Close Ranks : Extend & Expand the G.I. Bill |
Place of publication | Chicago, Illinois |
Publisher | Vietnam Veterans Against the War |
Publication date | 1976 |
Language | English |
Country | United States |
State | Illinois |
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Full text | VETERANS, CLOSE RANKS * " EXTEND A EXPAND ™G.I.BILL H Payment of All School Expenses plus Decent Living Allowance ! * An End to All G.I. Bill Restrictions! *A/o Cutoff in the G.I. Bill I NX* #k few - '" Chicago in Detroit tifrwim Mm. in New York City VETS! TODAY WE ARE FACING A DAMN SERIOUS SITUATION. WE HAVE TWO CHOICES: EITHER WE STAND UP AND FIGHT, OR WE'LL BE CRUSHED. Most of us never thought it would be this bad as we marked our days off on the short-timers calendar. But after getting discharged we found ourselves on another operation — Operation Hard Times. While we were in the military, we looked forward to the day we got out because we thought it would be an improvement over the day-to-day hassles of military life. No one argues that it's not good without having NCO's and Officers on our backs day and night, but the way we have to live and the conditions we face sure aren't what we expected. When the rich sent us off to fight in their war in Vietnam, when they needed us to keep their business interests nice and safe for them, they promised us the sky; they delivered little. The truth is that they didn't care for us one bit — they used us and then they threw us away. Sure we got some benefits, and we fought for them too, but it's a nightmare trying to get them and keep what little scraps they throw us. EXTEND AND EXPAND THE GIBILL The latest and biggest attack on vets is the cuts that keep coming down on the GI Bill. On Memorial Day, 1976, the day that the VFW and American Legion were parading up and down the streets saying how great it is to fight for the rich man, 3. 7 million of us vets, discharged from 1954- 1966, w'ere bounced off the GI Bill. Nearly half a million of these vets were in school at the time. Many of these vets, members of VVAW or vets we go to school with, held VA certificates of eligibility for many more months of school, but they received no warning until letter came in the mail with the bad news--no more GI Bill for you! That cut was just the beginning of what they have in store for us. Current legislation floating around Congress tells a grim tale of things to come^^y^rf^brr^^n elude: plans to cut off the (Jl^^imtKF^^^^t^tff \ ■ ■, thi I i /ice after January 1976; cttLug twMjS&i^^ft^l i gibil it# f< >r the Bill from 10 years to ■years: a/id |»A|^other cfcs (see the separate section om the G^P™l*For mor^^j|p^). That's one side ■£ th^^tjg^NWIgSyi^ the O&A side is sneakier. The VA is r w ^* w i 11W tSZ^^W^1 K! ■ i < >\ir attendance in many schools .^frfWrWnHke the roll call in the military, if they don't like the results, you're off the GI Bill. In some schools if the VA doesn't like your grade average (taken in spot checks), they decide what courses you should Continued on Page 7. |
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