Vets to McCain: Back New GI BIll

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Vets to McCain: Back New GI BIll
April 10, 2008
Inter Press Service

SAN FRANCISCO - A leading political action committee founded by veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan has launched a new internet video and petition demanding that Sen. John McCain throw his support behind a new GI Bill.

The video -- a joint project of Brave New Films, VoteVets.org and WesPAC, a group formed by former Supreme Allied Commander in Europe General Wesley Clark -- is aimed at persuading the Republican nominee for president to agree to provide improved education benefits for soldiers returning home from the two wars.

The video features four veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, testifying about the problems they have with the current GI Bill.

"When I enlisted, I was under the impression that my college would be paid for, that I would have everything taken care of," Iraq war veteran Joshua Drake said in the video.

"The current GI Bill is inadequate," the former Navy Corpsman added. "It hasn't kept up with the cost of inflation, or the cost of tuition or the cost of books. ... If I could talk to John McCain, I would try to appeal to him as a fellow veteran."


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