I first saw it back in the 70s when they took away the GI bill for us Vietnam era vets.
Ours has always been a military family, on both my husband and my side...my great grandfather served with the Army Cavalry at Ft Yates, ND...he was a horse soldier...his son, my grandfather, fought in WW1...his son, my dad, fought in WW11...my hubbys dad landed on Normandy, watched his fellow army buddies blown to bits, while he somehow survived, my hubbys uncle was in the navy in the Pacific during WW11, another uncle served in Korea...and my own hubby served in the army for 28yrs...all good proud men, who served in the military, and risked their lives, and believed that they were defending Freedom and America...
To take away from these men, what they might have been promised, would make all of them roll over in their graves...