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Show (Srnd your questions about the armed forces or any aspect of military servict to: Walter Sbead, Armed Services Serv-ices Question Box, 1057 National Press Building, Washington 4, D.C. Answers will be given in this column.) VETERANS Administration recently re-cently announced plans to double the scope of a successful year-old experiment in developing the living theatre for hospitalized veterans. The project has been so well received, re-ceived, VA said, that 27 additional hospitals will take part during 1952, boosting the total to 56, nearly double the number participating this year. The plan is sponsored by the American Educational Theatre Association, As-sociation, and calls for students in speech and drama departments of colleges and universities as well as community theatre groups to bring all forms of drama to ill and disabled dis-abled veterans in VA hospitals. Selection of 139 distinguished military mili-tary graduates of colleges throughout through-out the country for appointmen's as second lieutenants in the leg'i.'ar Army has been announced. The appointees ap-pointees are members of senior division ROTC units at their respective re-spective colleges and will graduate at the mid-term of the current school year. Q. I surrendered my permanent perma-nent National Service Life Insurance Insur-ance policy for cash uhen I uent on active duty recently. I am about to be discharged, and I would like to know how to get my policy back. D.LS., Simpson, Minn. A. You have two courses of action, ac-tion, but in either case you must act within 120 days of your separation from active service: (1) You may apply to VA m Washington, D.C, for a new permanent policy of the same plan and not in excess of the amount of the surrendered policy, and pay the required premium, or (2) you may reinstate your surrendered sur-rendered permanent plan by paying the required reserve and the current cur-rent month's premium. Your nearest near-est VA office can give you further details. Q. I have a term NSLI policy on which the premiums were waived during my military duty. What do I do to keep it in force after I am released from service? J.M.C., Dalton, Ky. A. You should resume payments of the required premiums to the VA in Washington, D.C. within 120 days after your release from active duty. You should make the first payment as soon as possible. Q. May the flag which drapes the casket of a deceased veteran be given to a friend of the veteran veter-an after the burial services? L.K.B., Watcrvillc, Ohio. A. No, the flag must go to the next of kin. |