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We have an opportunity to enact equally important legislation today for those who have served post-9/11 in Iraq and Afghanistan. On my first day in office, I introduced the Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2007 in order to provide our returning troops benefits that mirror those provided to our veterans after World War II.
In the current debate about how to properly support our newest generation of veterans, history has taught us that we must not overlook the great transformative power of education. This Veterans Day, I believe it is time that we commit to a more robust educational assistance program and that we provide a firstclass education for the men and women who have served us honorably in Iraq and Afghanistan.
First as an infantry combat Marine in Vietnam and later as a full Committee Counsel on the House Committee on Veterans Affairs, I saw first-hand the inequities of the Vietnam-era GI Bill and the difficulties that so many veterans of that era encountered as they reentered the civilian world.
Under the current Montgomery GI Bill, designed primarily for peacetime - not wartime - service, a service member must pay $100 a month for the first year of his
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