Tuesday, April 5, 2011

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.

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