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Show RAY H. WHEELER March 21 2 0 the veterans bureau here, and I'll get my check and you can get yours." o I went in th re t ign up and they said, "Well, you're not a veteran." And then I went- and my neighbor come by and he said, "I'm going to school down at th BYU." And I says, "How are you going to school?" And he says, "I'm going on the GI Bill." I didn't know what the GI Bill was. The GI Bill was enacted in June of 1944. It was the greatest bunch of legislation that was ever legislated. Congress and the president signed it. President Roosevelt signed it in. Well he says, "I can go to school, and they'll pay me to go to school, and they'll give me housing." I went down there and they said, "You're not a veteran." WIN: Really? RAY: So I went to BYU and asked the coach, you know, about this scholarship I had. And he said, "We've got so many guys down here trying to go to school that they are hanging out of the trees." And, he said, "The government will pay us for them to go to school, and we've got five years of backup students." You know, the war went for five years. "And all of these students are coming to go to school at once and we haven't got the room." And he says "I can't give you that scholarship because the government is giving them all of these other scholarships." Well, there were too many boys. So, I couldn't go to school, and I couldn't get the GI Bill. I wanted to build a home, get a home. You could get a home for three percent and the government would finance it. Or, buy a farm. In these pools you could get these farms, all under the GI Bill. It was the greatest bunch of legislation. Now, today, I see where the congress has appropriated millions for this educational fund for these loans for these students. That's what makes it go. Well, I was denied that for 43 years, 28 |
