It’s time to report on the new GI Bill


	It’s time to report on the new GI Bill

RayWatkins

4-23-2009 3:39 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/586fa4d7-69f4-4cc1-a42f-dde13813a154/834C5738-F4AD-4AB7-BC6C-DCFAC27D20D8/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.niemanwatchdog.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=ask_this.view&askthisid=00408" href="http://www.niemanwatchdog.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=ask_this.view&askthisid=00408" style="font-size: 11px;">www.niemanwatchdog.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.niemanwatchdog.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=ask_this.view&askthisid=00408"><P>Derek Blumke, a six-year active duty Air Force veteran deployed three times to Afghanistan who is now an undergraduate at the University of Michigan, said that many of his classmates just don’t understand that asking him if he has killed anyone in combat is “not an appropriate question.”</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.niemanwatchdog.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=ask_this.view&askthisid=00408"><P>Blumke, who founded the group <A href="http://www.studentveterans.org/">Student Veterans of America</A>, said the transition from the battlefield to college campus is a tough and under-addressed issue. Student veterans often find themselves the oldest one in the classroom, and with experiences to which their classmates cannot relate. Many of Blumke’s peers at the University of Michigan just “don’t understand what [veterans] have gone through.”</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.niemanwatchdog.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=ask_this.view&askthisid=00408"><P>Blumke, shown at right, and others are working with colleges across the country to address student veteran needs as schools gear up for a new wave of veterans <IMG vspace="10" hspace="10" align="right" src="http://www.niemanwatchdog.org/Ask_this/images/blumke%20090405.jpg" alt="" />to fill their classrooms, who will have their tuition covered by the new, <A href="http://www.gibill.va.gov/GI_Bill_Info/benefits.htm#CH33">Post 9/11 GI Bill</A>, slated to kick in Aug. 1. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/834C5738-F4AD-4AB7-BC6C-DCFAC27D20D8/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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