During the Great Depression, President Herbert Hoover orders the U.S. Army under General Douglas MacArthur to evict by force the Bonus Marchers from the nation’s capital.
Two months before, the so-called “Bonus Expeditionary Force,” a group of some 1,000 World War I veterans seeking cash payments for their veterans’ bonus certificates, had arrived in Washington, D.C. Most of the marchers were unemployed veterans in desperate financial straits. In June, other veteran groups spontaneously made their way to the nation’s capital, swelling the Bonus Marchers to nearly 20,000 strong. Camping in vacant government buildings and in open fields made available by District of Columbia Police Chief Pelham D. Glassford, they demanded passage of the veterans’ payment bill introduced by Representative Wright Patman.
While awaiting a vote on the issue, the veterans conducted themselves in an orderly and peaceful fashion, and on June 15 the Patman bill passed in the House of Representatives. However, two days later, its defeat in the Senate infuriated the marchers, who refused to return home. In an increasingly tense situation, the federal government provided money for the protesters’ trip home, but 2,000 refused the offer and continued to protest. On July 28, President Herbert Hoover ordered the army to evict them forcibly. General MacArthur’s men set their camps on fire, and the veterans were driven from the city. Hoover, increasingly regarded as insensitive to the needs of the nation’s many poor, was much criticized by the public and press for the severity of his response.
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It is rather interesting what happens to military Veterans when they ask the government to make good on their promised “Entitlements” is it not?
“In 1924, Congress rewarded veterans of World War I with certificates redeemable in 1945 for $1,000 each. By 1932, many of these former servicemen had lost their jobs and fortunes in the early days of the Depression.” (from link, below)
It must have been difficult to explain to those soldiers who returned from the trench warfare of World War I to discover their inept leaders had let the communist ideology into the Ivy League. (what that means, to those unable to read a historical fact and infer relation… CongressCritters back then were just as corrupt as now. They fought communism in theory, but let it in the back door via labor unions.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/wilson-eugene-debs/
I am not sure of the history of the Thousand Dollar Certificates referenced, but I am almost willing to BET it was called the G. I. Bill….
Anyone willing to take that 50 dollar bet to send to Admin? I will send mine along with None Ya Biz’s fiddy donated because of his fine comment about the site and regards to his grandchildren.
Who can find out if the Certificate given to World War I soldiers was called a GI Bill?
http://www.ushistory.org/us/48c.asp
Just so happens that one of the officers involved in this disgrace was one Major Dwight David Eisenhower. MG: the whole govt is/was corrupt. Seems like it’s always been that way.
Es ist gut, wenn Offiziere nur Befehle befolgen, ja?
You forced me to do it.
“It’s good if officers just follow orders, right?”
https://www.lexilogos.com/english/german_translation.htm
Very close:
“It’s good if officers just follow orders, yes?”
*The “…ja?”(yes?”) is not an interrogative but instead the squadron commander’s cynical closure in presenting the iron truth to subordinates.
So did George S. Patton. Just goes to show you that the military will do exactly what the President orders. Keep thinking they won’t shoot you when they come for your weapons.
Yep, and one of MacArthur’s assistant’s that help him evict the Marchers was no other than Dwight D. Eisenhower!!! Shame on you General!!!
History is rarely as written.
Even recent history.
Mostly just hoaxed and spun to the n’th degree.
http://mileswmathis.com/alamo.pdf