Veteran's Rights: Amendment Proposal

Amendment 28:
 This Amendment refers to the well being of Veterans returning from active duty. These Veterans wolud be given a bonus depending on the years they served. Also they would get the right to a scholarship (this adresses the younger generation of Veterans) and the right to a loan for the use of buying a home.

Veteran's Rights: Change

     Veteran's were never really regarded as struggling victims, they were looked upon as war heroes justice personnel. But after WWI was over, the struggle for justice abruptly began manifesting itself until soon after the GI Bill got passed. The GI Bill will be shortly explained in the following.
     After WWI most Veterans had no were to go, most of them were young and had no were to live or a college education that could land them a good job. So the House of Representatives proposed the GI Bill, this gave soldiers returning from war, especially the younger ones, the rights to home loans, money for college and other expenses they faced upon arriving to the US. The GI Bill was officially passed June 22, 1944, so that soldiers returning from WWII could experience its benefits.
     The following briefly described the long history that is the GI Bill and how it has helped all Veterens returning from devastating war trauma.

Veteran's Rights: Struggle & Activism

     One of the more difficult and post-war struggles, came from the Vietnam war right around the 1960's. Many of the American Veterans felt guilty or basically tearing Vietnam apart for the US Government's own benefits. This was engraved in the minds of most Vets returning from Indochina which most of them suffer from PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder). The following will exemplify the events that cause the outbreak of Vietnam Veterans' protest.
     The only war the United States of America ever lost in its 200 year history was the Vietnam war. This was one war Americans, including the war's veterans, would like to forget. The Vietnam war was one of many "titles", it was one of the most expensive wars the US had been a part of.
     The ones who suffered the most were the soldiers returning back from war. They were the ones that had to live with the fact of killing not only Vietnamese soldiers, but many also basically murdered random civilians. Another of the war's impact was felt several thousand mile from Vietnam, in the US, were many veteran's, as previously mentioned suffered with PTSD. This "sickness", among other things, still give us a grim look on the past, reminding us of the hardships Vietnam War veterans faced after landing in the US.
     The following exemplified how life was like during and after the war was over, and it gives us a chance to see the not so bright side of all these wars and fighting that went on back then and that is still going on now.

Links:
- http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/vietnam/postwar.htm
- http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/VNprotest.htm
      

President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the G.I. Bill, June 22, 1944

Veteran's Rights: Oppression

     Veterans after WWI especially, didn't really have were to go after the war was done and they returned to the US. Most of them did not own a job, because they were mostly forced into the military, especially young people,   and they also lacked education of money to enter college. The following examples will demonstrate the oppression most of them faced after the war was over.
     One example of this "oppression", was the unpaid bonuses a group of veterans claims from the Bonus Act of 1924. The act states that a bonus was provided based on the number of years they served at war. When these bonuses went unpaid, that same group of veterans went marching down to Washington to make claim to the money and economic help they rightfully deserved. Although much of the money went unclaimed, because most of them left when they were not given the money and others were "kicked out" by US troops, this marked a chapter of unrest in the nations capital.
     The following was one example of the many hard times the veterans returning from risking their lives for their country and this is how they get paid in return. On the positive note the GI Bill was later passed and education, which was hard to come by during those times in the US, was offered for those returning from war.

Veteran's Rights: History

     The term "Veteran", could be defined in many ways, but most commonly referred as battle tested soldier. The fisrt veteran's rights were faught for after World War I, when the soldiers ruturning from home usually or the majority had no job, no way to maintain their families or in some cases no place to go, refering to home. The following will mention examples of acts and bills passed regarding Verteran's rights and how they were treated after the wars they came from.
     The first bills passed granted the soldiers a sad $60 and a train ticket home. Another most common and original acts conserning the Veterans was the Wolrd War Adjustment Act of 1924, most commonly known as the Bonus Act. This act provided a bonus determined by the number of year sthey had faced in war, but their was a catch, these soldiers didn't see a single penny for 20 years. This oppression carried on until after WWII, were the GI Bill was passed after beinng widely debated in the House of Congress for many months. This bill, in summary, gave veterans returning from WWII money for home loans, they would also pay for studies, because usually most of the soldiers were from the ages 18-25 respectively, among other benefits.
     The following examples give the idea and explain a little bit of the huge history regarding veterans and their rights, other more specific bills were passed after the Vietnam and Korean wars respectively, but those will be enter in detail later.

Review of Classmates' Blog: Immigration

http://www.imagineaheartshapedbox.blogspot.com/
 Paulette's post about her family immigration was very interesting because she could locate exactly where they came from (ex. England and Spain), keep in mind that she has a very distinct second last name in Haddock.

http://www.ssrivera.blogspot.com/
 Stephanie's, though a bit usual was pretty interesting also because it contained information, a lot of information, about her family's name and her Italian immigration diary was very entertaining.

http://qeehai.blogspot.com/
 Carlos's blog about Italian immigration was very interesting because it has a different perspective, being from a male instead of a female writer, especially in the diary part.

http://andres06-andy.blogspot.com/
 Andres's story about his cousin leaving for America depicts the typical immigration story, where she has problems in her home country and believes that fleeing or leaving to America would make all those problems just go away.