US Presidency
2010

That's why we've already made one of the largest increases in funding for veterans in decades. We're treating the signature wounds of today's wars post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury while providing the health care and benefits that all of our veterans have earned. And we're funding a Post-9/11 GI Bill that helps our veterans and their families pursue the dream of a college education. Just as the GI Bill helped those who fought World War II including my grandfather become the backbone of our middle class, so today's servicemen and women must have the chance to apply their gifts to expand the American economy. Because part of ending a war responsibly is standing by those who have fought it. Two weeks ago, America's final combat brigade in Iraq the Army's Fourth Stryker Brigade journeyed home in the pre dawn darkness. Thousands of soldiers and hundreds of vehicles made the trip from Baghdad, the last of them passing into Kuwait in the early morning hours.