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[00:00:10] Barclay Allen: This is Barclay Allen on Here's to Veterans, the best in music for all you ex-servicemen and women and your folks everywhere. Especially transcribed for you by the Veterans Administration in cooperation with the American Federation of Musicians.
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[00:00:36] Barclay Allen: Hi, everyone, this is Barclay Allen inviting you to a musical quarter-hour designed for you veterans of all four services and asking you ex-GIs to bend a very receptive ear to an important message later in the show. But now, how about some music? Here is a tune we recently recorded. See how you like After You've Gone.

[MUSIC- Barclay Allen: After You've Gone]

[00:03:30] Barclay Allen: This is Barclay Allen talking about something that's pretty close to my heart. I mean, the VA's program of vocational training for our disabled veterans, the one we ordinarily call Public Law 16. You know, when it comes to a crippling injury that makes a fella look at life from a wheelchair, I speak from personal experience. And I've seen enough veterans in the same fix to know this. Just because a severe injury condemns a veteran to a wheelchair, don't ever think he's going to sit on the sidelines if he can help it. The VA records prove it.
Public law 16 has helped and is helping many thousands of disabled veterans. Fellows with many different ailments and injuries to prepare themselves for self-reliant careers at jobs they can do and do well. Many employers have found that hiring handicapped veterans not only helped those veterans, but found it was good for their business too. Now, what are the rules for getting this fine vocational training at government expense? I'll give you the facts right after this next number, which is Barclay's Boogie.

[MUSIC- Barclay Allen: Barclay's Boogie]

[00:05:49] Barclay Allen: And now, Barclay Allen, with some basic facts about vocational training for disabled veterans, with special reference to you young fellows who served after Korea. To qualify, you must have a service-connected ailment that happened to you after June 27th, 1950. Your trouble must be severe enough to entitle you to receive regular compensation checks from the VA. And, very important, you must be in need of this special kind of vocational training in order to overcome your handicap so you can earn your living at a job you're qualified to do.
Now, you may be wondering how much of this training can a disabled Korean veteran count on? Well, of course, it depends on how long it takes to restore your employability, but if it's necessary, you can get up to four years of vocational training. It all adds up to this. It means that your country is determined to give you fellows the chance to acquire new skills so that you may earn a useful and self-reliant living. Now it's music, and how about a little Nola?

[MUSIC- Barclay Allen: Nola]

[00:09:48] Barclay Allen: Well, friends, this is my second visit to Here's to Veterans, and I hope you invite us back again. Before we leave, here is another of our latest, Cherokee.

[MUSIC- Barclay Allen: Cherokee]

[00:12:58] Barclay Allen: And that's the Here's to Veterans tribute from yours truly, Barkley Allen. Here's to Veterans is presented, transcribed by the Veterans Administration in cooperation with the American Federation of Musicians, James C. Petrillo president, whose members have donated their services and this station which has contributed its time and the public interests. Tune in again for more top-flight entertainment on Here's to Veterans. And this is Barkley Allen saying, thanks for listening.

[MUSIC - Barclay Allen: Cherokee]

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