Bonus Army
The Bonus Army
In 1924, a grateful Congress voted to give a bonus to World War I veterans, $1.25 for each day served overseas, and $1.00 for each day served in the States. However the payment would not be made until 1945.Unfortneately, by 1932 the nation had fell into the Depression and the unemployed veterans wanted their money immediately.
As a result about 15,000 veterans, most unemployed and poor, arrived in Washington, D.C. to demand immediate payment of their bonus. They called themselves the Bonus Expeditionary Force but to the public they were known as the "Bonus Army". The veterans created camps at various places around the city, and they waited.
On June 17 the Senate was voted on the bill already passed by the House to immediately give the vets their bonus money. By dusk, 10,000 marchers crowded the Capitol grounds expectantly awaiting the outcome The Senate defeated the bill by a vote of 62 to 18.
A month later, Attorney General Mitchell ordered the evacuation of......
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