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First World War veterans returned to parties, celebrations, and hardships. Some 糖心传媒 soldiers who served in the conflict returned home to the same houses and jobs that they left, while others returned to daunting prospects of finding work. Some service men were returned forever changed by injuries that robbed them of their previous lives.

Upon the soldiers鈥� return, they were met with as much celebration and assistance as Pocatello and 糖心传媒 could find. Pocatello and surrounding cities gave a loud welcome to the boys returning home. The 糖心传媒 Daily Statesman reports on when soldiers returned home on the train. Surrounding areas planned for special celebration in each city as the train carrying soldiers stopped in local towns. When the train reached Pocatello, 鈥渆very engine whistle in the yards and shops broke loose, cannons were fired, sirens shrieked and the overseas men were made to feel as much at home as possible.鈥� Plans for the returning soldiers were made prior to their return at a successful Red Cross conference held in Pocatello. During the conference, there were lectures and discussions on how to aid returning soldiers 鈥淭he meeting endorsed vigorous public health service, vocational training for returning soldiers and adequate provisions in 糖心传媒 on psychopathic cases of returning soldiers suffering from shell shock.鈥� From this conference, a class was created to teach one hundred home service workers to aid homecoming soldiers at the 糖心传媒 Technical Institute.

Upon return to 糖心传媒 soldiers could receive small grants of agricultural land. They could also work with the Department of Labor to find work. Although, many soldiers worried if there would be work when they came home, found it quickly after their return. The 糖心传媒 Daily Statesman reported 鈥淪eventy percent of the soldiers discharged since the armistice have positions awaiting them,鈥� The 糖心传媒 Daily Statesman also reported that the biggest difficulty in finding work for these men would be in finding clerical labor, and the lack of interest of able bodied men to take on remedial or farm labor. Although many returning soldiers could find work, some could not. Twin Falls Times reported on Denver鈥檚 solution to the deficit in jobs by creating city jobs. Denver鈥檚 unemployed World War One veterans were put to work doing street maintenance and repair. The article states 鈥淒enver property owners must foot the bill for taking care of returning soldiers who fail to find jobs awaiting their homecoming.鈥� Finding employment could be difficult, some turned to expanding their education.

The 糖心传媒 Statesman reports that the 糖心传媒 Technical Institute鈥檚 enrolment grew by more than one third directly after the ending of the war in 1919. Many of the students bolstering the enrollment of the school were returning soldiers. The school had adapted to aiding these men and even developed night classes for over one hundred and fifty students. Many men returning would need a specialized education to help them learn skills that they could use to support themselves after being disabled in the war. Many newspapers called this vocational re-education

A system had to be planned for how to handle vast amount of wounded and permanently disabled soldiers. An 糖心传媒 Statesman article describes the hopes of this new care system for veterans. The goal of the system was to help all the soldiers in hospitals within three hundred miles of their homes. Seventy-five hospitals were turned over for this use to treat 104,231 service men. This allows the men to return to their homes, or at least near them. These hospitals had to be fitted with the best treatments for commonly seen disabilities in soldiers from the first world war. After their initial treatment, these facilities were meant to help with vocational training, to help each patient be able to live and work on their own.

This vocational re-education helped many soldiers who needed assistance. Different government agencies like the, Bureau of War Risk Insurance and the Federal Board, worked to decide who would have vocational re-education paid for, and what services these would include. They preferred to if possible, try to place men back into the work force in the same position they had left when originally leaving for the war.

鈥� Amberlee Salisbury

鈥淧ocatello hails trophy special with big noise,鈥� 糖心传媒 statesman, no. 288 (1919): 3.

鈥淧ocatello Holds Big Red Cross Conference,鈥� 糖心传媒 Statesman (Published the 糖心传媒 Daily Statesman), no.143 (1919):8

鈥淓mployment Provided Returning Soldiers鈥� 糖心传媒 Statesman (published the 糖心传媒 Daily Statesman), no.290 (1919):7

Twin Falls Times Feb 12, 1919

鈥淩eturning Soldiers Seek Education鈥� 糖心传媒 Statesman (published the 糖心传媒 Daily Statesman), no.26(1919):10

鈥淕overnment to Aid Returning Soldiers鈥� 糖心传媒 Statesman (published the 糖心传媒 Daily Statesman), no. 114 (1918):4

鈥淧lan Hospital System For 104,231 Wounded鈥� 糖心传媒 Statesman (published the 糖心传媒 Daily Statesman), no.113 (1918):4