On Wednesday, September 26, 2007 at 08:26:36 (-0700) Jim Devine writes: >today, US National Public Radio had a story about the benefits of the >GI Bill -- which provided a lot of WW2 veterans with college education >and home loans. Somehow, they forgot to mention the stuff about the >class conflicts which produced that Bill. (The Vet's March of >Washington in the early 1930s, the unionization drives of the 1930s, >the strikes of the 1940s, the soldiers' protests at the end of the >war...)
NPR has become so awful --- FOX "news" stupidity without the psychotic ranting --- that I can barely stand to listen to it. Much easier to believe that a benevolent father figure handed out opportunity to the GIs than that the GIs themselves had something to do with it. Bill
