GI Bill costs are worth it, vets groups say

By Rick Maze - Staff writer
Posted : Tuesday May 13, 2008 13:03:28 EDT

... “The GI Bill is a cost of war as much as any other expenditure,” said Paul Rieckhoff, executive director of Iraq and Afghanistan War Veterans, founded in 2004. “Any member of Congress who votes for a $170 billion war bill and then votes against the GI Bill is nickel-and-diming our troops. Veterans of all generations will be outraged by that decision.”

Marty Conatser, national commander of the American Legion, said that ... “... the GI Bill transformed the economy and has been widely hailed as the greatest domestic legislation Congress has ever passed” ...

To critics who say it is too expensive, Conatser said they should “visit Walter Reed.”

“War is expensive indeed,” he said. “The bulk of that cost is paid for by the men and women who wear the uniform. Benefits are just a small, small cost of war.”

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