This week the U.S. begins rehabilitating the first veterans of World War II.
Ready for approval by Veterans' Administration's Vocational Rehabilitation Service are applications from more than 1,000 ex-soldiers and sailors no longer able to fight, no longer able to earn respectable livings at old jobs. Under a program quietly authorized by Congress last March, these men (and hundreds of thousands to follow) will be taught new trades, paid pensions ($100 a month for a married man with two children) while learning. Eventually they will be eased back into civilian life in new jobs.
V.A. will do no training itself but...
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