How your career in the military means greater access to higher education.
After World War II, servicemen of the Army, Navy, Air Force or Marines, returned home to find their jobs, their careers, and their lives in need of a jump start. Enter the GI Bill, and the promise of higher education and achievable dreams for all returning veterans. Thanks to President Franklin D. Roosevelt signing the GI Bill into law in 1944, millions of GIs who never dreamed that they might be able to go to college now had the golden opportunity.
The inspiration for the GI Bill came, in the words of President Franklin Roosevelt, from a desire to "provide the special benefits which are due to the members of our armed forces -- for they have been compelled to make greater economic sacrifice and every other kind of sacrifice than the rest of us, and are entitled to definite action to help take care of their special problems."
Back then, veterans made the most of the GI Bill. Today, getting a college education with your military benefits is no less available, and no less important.
