Speaker Pelosi on 21st Century GI Bill, Plus a Great Video

We are starting to get some photos and video from today's press conference supporting a 21st Century GI Bill.  A bill YDA is currently collecting petition signatures in support of.

Here is a tidbit from Speaker Pelosi's statement today. 

“What a great day this is.  Here we are, in a bipartisan way, demonstrating the unity that we all have to support our veterans.  We’re here with the clearest demonstration of the responsibility of one generation to the next.  When Matthew [Boulay] was talking about the original GI Bill of Rights signed in 1944 by President Roosevelt, I learned from our veteran service organizations that that bill was the product of the thinking of the veterans of World War I.  And they saw what they missed and they knew what they wanted to have for that next generation.

“And this GI Bill is the product of many veteran service organizations, veterans across our country knowing what we need to have for this generation, over a million and a half of whom have served in Iraq and Afghanistan.  And I want to acknowledge the fact that the student veterans that are here are benefiting from the activism of our VSOs who have served in former conflicts."

To read the full statement click here.

Also Brave New Films just sent us an email with a link to a short film they made on the topic of veteran educational benefits today.  Watch and enjoy!

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