WashPo G.I. Bill Article

Not much hard G.I. Bill news in an article by the Washington Post, but plenty of moving personal stories. It starts off:

Two years after a rocket-propelled grenade hit Nathan Toews during an ambush in southern Afghanistan, sending shrapnel shooting into his skull and spiderwebbing through his brain, he has recovered enough to ask: What now?

Like so many leaving the military, after years of taking orders, he's facing an almost infinite number of choices about his future.

The political G.I. Bill news it does touch on include the dozens of veteran related bills currently in congress and a recently revised bill -- now with 58 co-sponsors -- that would "expand benefits for veterans, including active-duty National Guard troops and reservists, to cover the cost of the most expensive public universities and to match contributions from private schools with higher tuition, for four academic years."

A decent portion of the article reveals the limitations of the current G.I. Bill and the struggles by Vets with a myriad of educational choices.

Source: Some War Veterans Find GI Bill Falls Short [Washington Post]

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