On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 04:26:47 GMT, "Jay Honeck"
wrote:

GI Bill?

Probably not, but that was the best thing ever to happen to general
aviation. Not that I got anything out of it directly, but it was the
lifelline for a zillion FBOs and it sold planes and got people into
the sky. It meant that when I started flying in '69 there were planes
on the line and healthy FBOs.

And outside of aviation, It got people into college and out into good
jobs. I was a snot-nosed kid out of highschool in '61, starting at
engineering school, but the ex-GIs, goddamn, they knew what they were
after and they worked their asses off and made us kids work or fall to
the tyranny of the curve.

Don