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From its colonial beginnings onward, the United States has taken responsibility for the welfare of the men and women who have fought its wars. The earliest documentation of these efforts comes to us from the Pequot War, waged by the Plymouth Colony and Massachusetts Bay Colony pilgrims against the Pequot Indians in 1636–1637. At the end of that conflict, the Plymouth pilgrims passed a civil act that provided pensions to wounded soldiers or the families of those who had died in the war (Patterson 2014). Every subsequent war resulted in the passing of more legislation to provide greater compensation and benefits for veterans of different conflicts. Thus, the Revolutionary War has the National Pension Law of 1776 for Revolutionary War veterans, the Civil War has the General Pension Act of 1862 for (Union) Civil War veterans, and so forth. In the aftermath of World War I, Congress passed the Smith-Sears Veterans Rehabilitation Act of 1918, also known as the Soldier’s Rehabilitation Act, to provide vocational rehabilitation to veterans with physical disabilities. The Federal Board of Vocational Education was created to carry out the monumental task of providing services to approximately 204,000 wounded soldiers. This board was later subsumed into the Veterans Bureau,