Tag Archives: Veterans

Cartoon of a G.I. reading the Bethel student newspaper, The Clarion

The G.I. Bill Turns 70

June 25, 2014 · by · in Beyond Bethel, World War II · 2 Comments

Seventy years ago this past Sunday, Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt signed into law the Servicemen’s Adjustment Act of 1944. While World War II still had over ten months to go in Europe, and over a year in the Pacific, the so-called “G.I. Bill” made possible dramatic changes in postwar America. Pres. Barack Obama summarized them […]

Gateway from the old Memorial Stadium, now part of the McNamara Alumni Center

A Bethel War Memorial?

June 23, 2014 · by · in Beyond Bethel, World War I, World War II · 1 Comment

In the last two years I’ve developed an interest in the history of war commemoration, writing about it from time to time at my personal blog and even keeping — very irregularly — a photoblog on the subject. So as I’ve started to research how Bethel and other colleges and universities here in the Twin Cities experienced […]