GI Bill helps veterans establish careers after service

Fox4 ^ | Mar 13, 2020 | Alicia Nieves

[nickcarraway]

The GI Bill provides educational assistance to service members, veterans and their dependents.

Rob Bannon of Jacksonville, Florida, is among the veterans who have used the government benefit to better their lives.

Bannon runs a small business coaching and training golfers, both professionals and beginners.

[Bodega]

Had I NOT had the GI Bill for my first year of college I might never have gone to college at all. I had no self confidence I could succeed thanks to my dad who belittled me in many ways for years as I grew up at home.

Now I have spent about 40 years in academia (in labs and teaching undergraduates and graduate students) and in the reality world because I found I could work in jobs similar to what I learned to do in the Navy and earn my advanced degrees (a DVM, a Phd and an MSN)at the same time.

My husband and his Mom encouraged me times without number.

I am so grateful.

I do not understand why compulsory military experience is not still mandatory for every citizen capable of doing it, why women are not expected to be able to physically shoot guns and why vocational training is not perceived as am honor. Had I not known the difference between an electron and a zit, I would never have been happy as an adult.

My life would have been a “what if” question mark.

[MayflowerMadam]

” thanks to my dad who belittled me in many ways for years as I grew up at home.”

MY favorite line from my dad was, “You’ll never amount to a hill of beans”, no matter what I did. Did you get that one? (When Dad died, we thought about planting beans around his grave.)

[shalom aleichem]

Ah yes, the GI Bill meant everything to me and my career.

One of the few government programs that actually worked. The benefits far exceed the costs.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

In 1945, the bankrupt Japanese government managed to build orphanages for old folks who had survived the war. The war had consumed thousands of what would have become their extended families.

They also offered musical instrument training to some of the returning soldiers. These men were posted outside temples where they played old patriotic tunes and begged for money...