G.I. Bill
The Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 (P.L. 78-346, 58 Stat. 284m), known informally as the G.I. Bill, was a law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans (commonly referred to as G.I.s). Benefits included low-cost mortgages, low-interest loans to start a business, cash payments of tuition and living expenses to attend university, high school or vocational education, as well as one year of unemployment compensation. It was available to every veteran who had been on active duty during the war years for at least one-hundred twenty days and had not been dishonorably discharged; combat was not required. By 1956, roughly 2.2 million veterans had used the G.I. Bill education benefits in order to attend colleges or universities, and an additional 5.6 million used these benefits for some kind of training program.
Historians and economists judge the G.I. Bill a major political and economic success—especially in contrast to the treatments of World War I veterans—and a major contribution to America's stock of human capital that sped long-term economic growth.
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by: PotheadSay I can take the time to sit and bore myself
Not that good of company I've always felt it
All the wasted time behind I'm lazy too
Habits hard to change oh no what can I do?
chorus 1
Cadd9 G A Asus2 A
I wanna change what I'm after
Cadd9 G A Asus4 A
Start to write a new chapter
Cadd9 G A Asus2 A
Unchained and freed at last let loose and I'm runnin
Cadd9 G A
Gonna try for the summit of goals
verse 2
Mud and mold it comes and goes before my eyes
Kinda suffocated blinded with a strobbo light
But then I'm lost in bliss and I know what to do
Oh feel the change comin from inside
chorus 2
Cadd9 G A Asus2 A
I wanna change what I'm after
Cadd9 G A Asus4 A
Start to write a new chapter
Cadd9 G A Asus2 A
Unchained and freed at last let loose and I'm runnin
Cadd9 G A
Gonna make it to the summit I know
Oh it won't let me go
It'll take us all
It'll take us all
No safe way home
No easy way to go
It'll take us all
It'll take us all
verse 3
Life it's seems so hard to try it's all a lie
Workin to afford something to justify it
Well,times are hard but not so long it'll have to do