Marion: Something is lacking in this explanation. The 52-20 was unemployment from the Govt. for Vets. Yes I collected it a couple of months with no problems till I found work. (the first month I sure didnt look too hard, just enjoyed as I was single and living home then, had my second installment of the $300.00 "Mustering out pay" and what I had sent home was quite a bit also. Also kept my G.I. insurance payments and did not take the dividends so I have many times the original amount of paid up insurance as
of yet. Most, if not all of my payment of $6.40 per month goes into more paid up life insurance with the dividends staying in and not collected. Where else does a critter over 80 get this kind of life insurance for $6.40 a month. My paid up life insurance goes up each month even yet. I feel in most cases we were treated damn fairly by the Govt.
on returning home. On enlisting we were promised nothing but serving for the whole
duration of the war plus 6 months and in late 1944 they came out with the G.I. Bill which was not expected or promised. I feel I was treated more than fairly by a gratefull country. Maybe I was just lucky, but the harder I worked the luckier I became. The 9 months of trade school in refrigeration and Air conditioning I took
in 1946 gave me a trade to comfortably retire from thanks to the G.I. Bill and a good life while working. No complaints from me. Prior to trade school I realized I had no
trade education and went from job to job..