'American Air Force'   2


When his brother James was injured while serving in Germany; after he had  walked right into a German machine-gun nest, Peter managed to get a few days leave so that he could go to see him. James had been   hit in his right leg, but was still able to leap over a row of vines anyway, and out of the line of fire. Sadly, and even after many surgeries, the injury was so bad that it plagued him for the rest of his life.



By 1943 the government began to realize that they had a problem on their hands. So many young men would be coming back from war soon, but there were very few jobs for them to easily fit back into. However military service was about to give Peter something he hadn’t planned for, The G.I. Bill, as during the spring of 1944 the bill unanimously passed both chambers of Congress. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed it into law on June 22, 1944, just days after the D-day invasion of Normandy. This enabled ex servicemen to apply to college. Upon enrolling, he would have to pay $100 for 12 months to receive a monthly education  benefit upon completion of the minimum service obligation. He would then be eligible for up to 36 months of benefits. These benefits were paid to him directly.






 

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