In 1970, I returned to college after four years in the USAF.

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20. I was a Boomer on the GI Bill in early 70's

After high school graduation in 1965, I attended a good private engineering school where the tuition was $1,600 IIRC for each of my two years there. Can't remember the room and board. I dropped out in 1967, was in the Army for almost 4.5 years, went back to college to an out of state BIG 10 university (graduating in 1974) and the GI Bill covered just about everything. Somewhere about '73 or '74 I talked to a high school classmate who had attended the Air Force Academy. Then the Air Force sent him for an MBA at Harvard. After that he was at the Pentagon at that time doing studies of how the government could save money on the GI Bill (benefit reductions mostly). I was so pissed at him. Good for him to get into the Academy and Harvard, but for him it was all completely free college and more, but here he was looking for ways to cut help for others who served where they had much more hardship than he ever saw. I hate that attitude of "I got mine, and screw you."

And don't get me started on the two classes of employees: those who got in early enough, like us Boomers, to get a pension, but new hires are out of luck. (My former employer ended pensions for new hires in 2007). I fear for those younger generations when they retire.