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Show World War II world safe for the younger veterans - and succeeded succeed-ed in enacting their G I Bills of World War II and of the Korean War which did so much to remove re-move the rehabilitation heartaches heart-aches from theJives of their younger comrades. "They did a far better job for the younger veterans, than they ever did for themselves. Now they have retired from their arenas of the battles of war and peace. For many of them their sunset days have become days of economic worry and bitter struggle strug-gle for existence made more poignant by a belief they have become the forgotten men -and women - of The American Legion.- "This Topeka meeting was a great morale builder for them. It demonstrated the youth of The American Legion has not forgotten for-gotten them-" 'Young' Legionnaires Map Assistance for Old-Timers By actual count a total of 197 veterans of World War I turned out for a mass, meeting called at the home of Capitol Post I here by The American Legion for a discussion of what yonnger Legionnaires can do for their older fellow veterans. Amerisan Legion speakers -spokesmen of the younger veterans vet-erans that now make-up 80 percent per-cent of the membership - reviewed review-ed all the rights and benefits that are now available under existing ex-isting laws for these oldsters. The discussion included service and non - service - connected disabilities, dis-abilities, pensions, hospitalization, hospital-ization, insurance, burial benefits, bene-fits, widow entitlements, Social Security payments and other pertinent matters. There was a quesaion and answer panal discussion. dis-cussion. Most of the questions were about Social Security and retirement income. A number of the older veterans vet-erans were found elibible for filing claims. Powers of attorney were secured and the claims were initiated. Numerous appointments ap-pointments were made for future fu-ture filings. Lasting hours , the meeting was such a success that the Department De-partment of Kansas has started plans for similar mass meetings of World War I veterans in other sections of the state. Commenting on the inspirational inspi-rational aspect of this meeting, one observer commented: "These were the great fighters of World War I in that global struggle and later the great fighters in the American Legion. "In war they fought to win to make the world safe for democracy democ-racy - which did not pan out. 1 "In peace they fought with ! equal zest to make the post |