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The GI Bill: College and the Military

If you’re contemplating joining the military but also want to attend college, you may be able to do both and have your college education paid by the government. Ever since President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944 into law following the Second World War, the United States government has helped millions of Americans go to college.

Veterans returning home from World War II were commonly called GI’s, and the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act became know…