thoughts: Today is the 64th anniversary of the GI Bill

A little bit of trivia: today is the 64th anniversary of the GI Bill. I wonder what all the vets dropping out of Cal State L.A. due to lack of government-subsidized tuition funds are thinking about these checks...? Food for thought..

Here are some photos of that proud moment:





Franklin Roosevelt signing the GI Bill, aka “The Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944”


Veterans in New York City wait for school counseling on the last day to file papers under the GI Bill, July 1951. In a new book political scientist and historian Ira Katznelson argues that the GI Bill, along with Social Security and New Deal labor laws, were racially discriminatory. (Bettman / Corbis Photo)