However, I’d like to offer one suggestion that may make a new G.I. Bill more palatable: prioritize recipients by time at combat. Those who have been stop-lossed would receive priority, followed by those who have been deployed into a combat zone at least once. It’s only fair that the soldiers who have taken the greatest risk receive the greatest rewards.
I hope there will be a final piece of legislation that will pass with a bipartisan, veto-proof majority—and you should too. It’s only right that we help those who risked their lives on the way to getting their post-war lives started on the road from soldier to citizen.
Contact Stuart Nachbar at http://www.EducatedQuest.com, a blog on education politics, policy and technology or read about his first book, The Sex Ed Chronicle, a novel on education and politics in 1980 New Jersey, at
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