in 1924 Congress voted to give WW1 veterans a bonus, but not to be paid until 1945. but in 1932 the US experienced a period of depression. as a result about 15,000 vets descended on Washington D.C....
The Bonus Army was not actually and army. It was a group of picketers (protestors). The picketers consisted mostly of World War I veterans and their families. Congress had voted them a bonus for...
The self-named Bonus Expeditionary Force, the assemblage of some 43,000 marchers—17,000 World War I veterans, their families, and affiliated groups—who protested in Washington, D.C., in the...