The stories just keep gewtting worse and worse. Why are not these important enough to go national?


MINNEAPOLIS, MN (NBC) -- When they came home from Iraq, 2,600 members of the Minnesota National Guard had been deployed longer than any other ground combat unit. The tour lasted 22 months and had been extended as part of President Bush's surge.

1st Lt. Jon Anderson said he never expected to come home to this: A government refusing to pay education benefits he says he should have earned under the GI bill.


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Everybody else in the country is getting screwed too. Welcome to the crowd.

I will say that the only good thing that I got out of my service was my GI Bill. I made it thru Univ of Washington and UC Berkley.

Anderson's orders, and the orders of 1,161 other Minnesota guard members, were written for 729 days.

Had they been written for 730 days, just one day more, the soldiers would receive those benefits to pay for school.

What a difference a day makes.

I would almost bet that his is not the only incident like this. This will save money needed to keep the "good fight" going in Iraq. What a crock of crap!