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Photographer: J. Makali Bruton
Taken: July 20, 2016
Caption: GI Bill Marker at the Mayflower Hotel
Additional Description: Outside Room 570 are two markers about the origin of the GI Bill. This one reads: December 1943, Room 570, Harry W. Colmery, Past National Commander, The American Legion. Worked tirelessly in this room drafting the Serviceman's Readjustment Act of 1944 "The GI Bill".
Submitted: July 26, 2016, by J. Makali Bruton of Accra, Ghana.
Database Locator Identification Number: p357554
File Size: 2.391 Megabytes

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