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The Bonus Army

The Bonus Army

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In the summer of 1932, thousands of war veterans descended on Washington, D.C. They weren’t there to riot. They weren’t there to celebrate. They were there to get paid — money they’d been promised, years ago.

This is the story of the Bonus Army, a protest movement that revealed America’s tensions in the Great Depression — and may have altered the course of U.S. politics forever.

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