VETERANS: Account to Date

The U.S. got an early statement on a bill it will be paying for generations to come.

Item: seven months after V-J Day, the Veterans Administration had paid out more than $800 million in World War II death benefits and disability awards.

Item: one out of four of the nation's 13,000,000 World War II veterans has already filed a disability claim.

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