Thousands of Unemployed Veterans Marched on Washington 1932, Feared by Pres Hoover They Were Attacked by the Military… Read More at http://gulfdogs.wordpress.com/2014/02/10/thousands-of-unemployed-veterans-marched-on-washington-1932-feared-by-pres-hoover-they-were-attacked-by-the-military/
Interesting piece of history that as far as I know hasn’t been told let alone taught in schools. This is history progressives want removed and forgotten. A few hundred soldiers and military hardware can control thousands in DC. Take note approx 45,000 UNEMPLOYED Veterans following WWI OCCUPIED the nations capital, with thousands more on the way who were PHYSICALLY surrounding the capital…. Marchers stayed camped out in central Washington, all they wanted was the cash bonus they were promised, to be paid out by 1945 in 1932, because the depression left them in dire straits with families to feed. The Senate rejected the protestors demands went into recess where Pres Hoover FEARING the protestors called in the military (under McArthur & Eisenhower) to remove them!
We have people today just as enraged in the millions not in the thousands as they were in 1932. There are over 100 MILLION Americans…
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