It operated as a traditional high school until the end of World War II, when it was converted to a vocational and adult education institution for the benefit of veterans who wanted to finish high school but no longer fit in at regular schools.

However, advocates of this point of view ignore the many successful and well-adjusted Vietnam veterans who have played important roles in America since the end of the Vietnam War such as Al Gore, Fred Smith ( founder and president of Federal Express ), Colin Powell, John McCain, Craig Venter ( famed for being the first to map the human genome ), and many others.

By the end of the program in 1956, roughly 2. 2 million veterans had used the GI Bill education benefits in order to attend colleges or universities.

The viceregal and / or royal group return to the dais to receive the playing of the Royal Anthem of Canada, " God Save the Queen ", prior to the assembled Armed Forces personnel and veterans performing a march past in front of the viceroy, bringing about the end of the official ceremonies.

In the United States, and some other allied nations, 11 November was formerly known as Armistice Day ; in the United States it was given its new name in 1954 at the end of the Korean War to honor all veterans.

With the end of the American Civil War in the 1860s, many discharged veterans looking to return home took to hopping freight trains.

Further educational assistance acts were passed for the benefit of veterans of the Korean War, the Vietnam Era, the introduction of the " All-Volunteer Force " in the 1970s ( following the end of conscription in the United States in 1973 ), the Persian Gulf War, and those who served following the attacks of September 11, 2001.

In the 2011 Costs of War report from Brown University, researchers projected that the cost of caring for veterans of the War on Terror would peak 30 – 40 years after the end of combat operations.

The Friends of Leiston Airfield hold a memorial service and flying display at the end of May each year, with veterans and their families attending.

The region was in the Central New York Military Tract, reserved for veterans, but a reservation was established at the northern end of Cayuga Lake for natives who returned to the area.

The song's release coincided with the end of World War II in Europe and became the unofficial homecoming theme for many veterans.

In 1998, all surviving veterans of the First World War from any allied country who had fought on French soil were made Knights of the Légion if they were not so already, as part of the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the war's end.

Authorized by Congress to be worn on the uniform by Union veterans. After the end of American Civil War, organizations were formed for veterans to network and maintain connections with each other.

According to Haaest, the author spent the majority of World War II in occupied Denmark and his knowledge of warfare comes second-hand from Danish Waffen-SS veterans whom he met after the end of the war.

In a more recent storyline, a campaign taking place generations after the end of the " Bag Wars " features the Knights ' current characters entering Bagworld and encountering societies descended from veterans of the wars ; one of these settlements, as yet unseen, is identified as " Barringer City ".

In 1998 Botterell celebrated his 102nd birthday at a hotel in Lille, where he and 16 other Canadian veterans marked the 80th anniversary of the war's end.

President Abraham Lincoln, in his second inaugural address, in 1865 towards the end of the US Civil War, famously called for good treatment of veterans: " to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan ".

In 1944, the GI Bill ( officially the Serviceman's Readjustment Act ) guaranteed Veterans Administration ( VA ) mortgages to veterans under favorable terms, which fueled suburbanization after the end of World War II, as places like Levittown, New York, Warren, Michigan and the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles were transformed from farmland into cities occupied by tens of thousands of families in a few short years.

Host drums are responsible for singing the songs at the beginning and end of a pow-wow session, generally a starting song, the grand entry song, a flag song, and a veterans or victory song to start the pow-wow, and a flag song, retreat song and closing song to end the pow-wow.

Ceremony gained immediate and long-term success following the end of the Vietnam as veterans took to the novel's message of healing and reconciliation between races and people in order to cope with the trauma of the military campaign.

Some veterans wore the pin on their civilian lapels for many years after the war's end.

'" To this end, and usually with first-wave punk rock veterans in tow, he recorded several singles, many of which were unreleased, and an LP, Disconnected, which was released in 1980.

In defeating `` Louis Capet '', John Tower's victory in Texas signals, once again, the end of the divine right of Liberalism.

But John nipped her rear end -- one lion's rear end was as good as another to John, Africa, Arizona no matter -- and she changed ends and took a swipe at John, but he ducked back.

John Powell, batting for Adair, fanned after fouling off two 2-and-2 pitches, and Buddy Barker, up for Stepanovich, bounced out sharply to Jerry Lumpe at second to end the 2-hour-and-27-minute contest.

In the end the good man, John Proctor, expresses what the audience has already come to feel when he says, `` A fire, a fire is burning!!

The Department of Agriculture averaged out U.S. food consumption last year at 1,488 lbs. per person, which, allowing for the 17 million Americans that John Kennedy said go to bed hungry every night, means that certain gluttons on the upper end must somehow down 8 lbs. or more a day.

Sir John Tenniel's illustration of the Caterpillar ( Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ) | Caterpillar for Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is noted for its ambiguous central figure, whose head can be viewed as being a human male's face with a pointed nose and pointy chin or being the head end of an actual caterpillar, with the first two right " true " legs visible.

First conceived during the Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower as a three-man spacecraft to follow the one-man Project Mercury which put the first Americans in space, Apollo was later dedicated to President John F. Kennedy's national goal of " landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth " by the end of the 1960s, which he proposed in a May 25, 1961 address to Congress.

Sigismund wanted to end the schism and urged John to call a general council.

The last of these also contained some oral material and by the end of the 18th century this was becoming increasingly common, with collections including John Ritson's, The Bishopric Garland ( 1784 ), which paralleled the work of figures like Robert Burns and Walter Scott in Scotland.

The next major addition was the White Wing 1882 – 1884 added behind the eastern end of the South Front, the architect being Sir John Taylor.

Other utilitarian-type views include the claims that the end of action is survival and growth, as in evolutionary ethics ( the 19th-century English philosopher Herbert Spencer ); the experience of power, as in despotism ( the 16th-century Italian political philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli and the 19th-century German Friedrich Nietzsche ); satisfaction and adjustment, as in pragmatism ( 20th-century American philosophers Ralph Barton Perry and John Dewey ); and freedom, as in existentialism ( the 20th-century French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre ).

Edward Bishop Elliott, in the Horae Apocalypticae ( 1862 ), argues that John wrote the book in exile on Patmos " at the close of the reign of Domitian ; that is near the end of the year 95 or beginning of 96 ".

At the end of November, a meeting was held in the rooms of Canon John Collins, chaired by the editor of the New Statesman, Kingsley Martin, to launch the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.

In 2011, the major story line of John Stape and his murder spree came to an end in May after he jumped off a hospital roof but left before he could be arrested.

Near the end of the 17th century, John Phillips, a nephew of poet John Milton, published what is considered by Putnam the worst English translated version.

However, many of his ideas were discarded during development in favor of simpler design primarily advocated by John Carmack, resulting in Hall in the end being forced to resign due to not contributing effectively in the direction the rest of the team was going.

Peter Gay places the zenith of deism " from the end of the 1690s, when the vehement response to John Toland's Christianity Not Mysterious ( 1696 ) started the deist debate, to the end of the 1740s when the tepid response to Conyers Middleton's Free Inquiry signalled its close.

Allen, shortly after Arnold's departure on the raid, decided, after his successes at the southern end of the lake, to take and hold Fort St. John himself.

Bill Edrich scored 1000 runs before the end of May in 1938.