This 2008 photo provided by Stephen Lee shows Lee (right) having a meal with Afghans in Paktika province, Afghanistan. Lee was still in Afghanistan — his second deployment to the war zone — when he began looking at colleges. The California native settled on the University of Wisconsin-Madison and had already begun his studies when he learned of the coming changes to his GI Bill benefits. He was looking at an extra $20,000 a year out of pocket. (ASSOCIATED PRESS / Stephen Lee)
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