"Although national support for the wars is as limited today as it was for Vietnam War in the 1960s and 70s, most people acknowledge that the policies that have taken us into the Middle East are not the fault of the men and women in the military," writes former Marine Corps veteran and president of Dartmouth College James Wright in The Chronicle of Higher Education. "Yet few Americans realize that the young people who are serving their country in Iraq and Afghanistan will not receive the kind of assistance that their grandfathers received when they returned from World War II. Educational benefits for the current generation of volunteers, whether they served in the regular military or in the Reserves or National Guard, are seriously inadequate. [D]espite the overwhelming historical success of educational benefits for veterans, such support for those who served in Iraq and Afghanistan has, unfortunately, proved to be n unnecessarily complicated matter. Remarkably, Congress allowed the legislation for the new G.I. bill to sit for a year with no action on it."