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Courtesy Associated Press / File In the summer of 1932, ten of thousands of veterans — many with their families in tow — gathered in Washington, D.C. to ask the government for money promised to them ...

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In the summer of 1932, thousands of jobless, hungry World War I veterans came to Washington, D.C. demanding early payment of bonuses due to be paid in 1945. This lead to an historic confrontation ...

The Bonus Army March is a forgotten footnote of American history. It involved as many as 30,000 mostly unemployed veterans who converged on Washington, D.C. in the spring and summer of 1932 to demand ...

The Bonus Army protesting on the U.S. Capitol steps on Jan. 2,1932. Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images The Bonus Army March is a forgotten footnote of American history.