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Bonus Army
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Bonus Army

In US history, a march on Washington, DC, by unemployed ex-servicemen during the Great Depression to lobby Congress for immediate cash payment of a promised war veterans' bonus.

During the spring of 1932, some 15,000 veterans camped by the River Potomac or squatted in disused government buildings. They were eventually dispersed by troops.



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Funded in part with $100,000 provided by the DAV National Service Foundation, "The March of the Bonus Army", produced by New Voyage Communications is history brought to life with rare archival photographs, newsreel footage, period music and interviews with scholars, writers and witnesses of the Bonus March.
March of the Bonus Army by DAV Magazine
The Bonus March in 1932, for example, was a well-documented public moment when many veterans re-evaluated the meaning of the war in distinctly negative terms.
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