

Note to the Disabled Soldier, Sailor, or Marine. 



As a disabled soldier, sailor, or marine you should remember ahvays tjiat the Office 

 of the Surgeon General, War Department, and all of its employees, the Bureau of 

 Medicine and Surgery, Ka^'y Department, and all its employees, and the Federal 

 Board for Vocational Education, and all its employees, are mutually interested in your 

 welfare solely. They have arranged a definite plan of cooperation to help you in 

 every possible way. You can not afford to leave the hospital until the medical officers 

 have done everything that they can for you to restore you to physical health and 

 strength. Any other course will interfere with your vocational success later. Fur- 

 thermore, you should by all means take advantage of the educational opportunities 

 which the hospital has proidded for you. 



"WTiile you are making up your mind what line of work you want to follow you should 

 take advantage of the opportunities to try yourself out in the different lines of activi- 

 ties which are pro^•ided at the hospital. When once you have made up your mind 

 as to the employment you want to enter or the kind of training you want the Federal 

 Board to give you after you leave the hospital, you should ask the vocational officers 

 at the hospital to provide for you the kind of training which will advance you in the 

 direction of the occupation which you expect to follow or for which you expect to lie 

 trained after you leave the hospital. You will find the educational officers at the hos- 

 pital eager to render this service for you, and you should consult them early in your 

 hospital career. 



All disabled soldiers, sailors, and marines in hospitals who want information about 

 reeducation should ask any instructor of the Hospital Educational Service or the 

 representative of the Federal Board for Vocational Education. 



Men discharged from the military or naval service who want information should 

 write to or call at the office of the Federal Board for Vocational Education, Washing- 

 ton, D. C. , or the District Office of the Federal Board of the district in which they are 

 located. The district offices of the Board are located at the following points: Boston, 

 New York City, Philadelphia, Washington, Atlanta, New Orleans, Dallas, St. Louis, 

 Cincinnati, Chicago, Minneapolis, Denver, San Francisco, and Seattle. For ad- 

 dresses, see page 31. 



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