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GI

noun as in government issue; soldier

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Some help for veterans came in the form of the GI Bill.

“The GI Bill,” as Mr. Nasaw writes, “was designed, in large part, to bind the veterans’ wounds and ease their adjustment to civilian life.”

Not that all veterans qualified for the GI Bill but for those who did qualify the bill allowed “free tuition, books, and fees to attend college, vocational school, or a job-training program of your choice and a living allowance while you were enrolled.”

Many who would later establish themselves as serious artists and thinkers took advantage of the GI Bill.

Henry Kissinger, among others, went to school—Harvard, after being turned down at Columbia, Cornell, New York University, the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton—on the GI Bill.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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