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Show HOME FACTS ABOUT I WAR IXSCRAXOE I Any man or woman of any age in the active military or naval service of the United States can obtain Government Gov-ernment insurance. It has been ruled that members of Officers' Training Camps are under the act and can obtain ob-tain insurance. The cost for each thousand dollars of insurance is from sixty-five cents a month to persons at the age of twenty-one to one dollar dol-lar and twenty cents a month to those of the age of fifty-one. The beneficiaries are limited to 7ife, husband, child, grandchild, brother or sister, stepbrother or stepsister, step-sister, adopted brother or adopted sister of the insured, as well as parent, par-ent, grandparent, or stepparent either eith-er of the insured or of his or her consort. The insurance is not compulsory, but the cost is low and the protection great, and not only are all persons eligible afforded every opportunity to obtain this insurance without trouble or extra expense but they are specially urged to do so. Gen. Pershing and thousands of other officers and tens of thousands |