The War Against The Vets: The World War I Bonus Army During The Great Depression
by Jerome Tuccille /
2018 / English / EPUB
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“Who Murdered the Vets?” writer Ernest Hemingway demanded in an
impassioned article about the deaths of hundreds of former
soldiers. Their fate came as part of the larger and often
overlooked story of veterans of the Great War and their
deplorable treatment by the government they once served.
“Who Murdered the Vets?” writer Ernest Hemingway demanded in an
impassioned article about the deaths of hundreds of former
soldiers. Their fate came as part of the larger and often
overlooked story of veterans of the Great War and their
deplorable treatment by the government they once served.
Three years earlier, under orders from President Herbert Hoover,
General Douglas MacArthur led the U.S. military through the
streets of the nation’s capital against an encampment of veterans
and their families. The vets were suffering the ravages of the
Great Depression and seeking an early payment of promised war
bonuses. Tanks, troops, and cavalry burned down tents and leveled
campsites in a savage and lethal effort to disperse the
protesters, resulting in the murder of several
demonstrators.
Three years earlier, under orders from President Herbert Hoover,
General Douglas MacArthur led the U.S. military through the
streets of the nation’s capital against an encampment of veterans
and their families. The vets were suffering the ravages of the
Great Depression and seeking an early payment of promised war
bonuses. Tanks, troops, and cavalry burned down tents and leveled
campsites in a savage and lethal effort to disperse the
protesters, resulting in the murder of several
demonstrators.
The administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt
subsequently shipped the vets to distant work camps in the
Florida Keys, where they were housed in flimsy tent cities that
fell prey to a hurricane of which the authorities had been given
ample warning. It was in reaction to the hundreds of bodies left
in the storm’s wake that Hemingway penned his provocative
words.
The administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt
subsequently shipped the vets to distant work camps in the
Florida Keys, where they were housed in flimsy tent cities that
fell prey to a hurricane of which the authorities had been given
ample warning. It was in reaction to the hundreds of bodies left
in the storm’s wake that Hemingway penned his provocative
words.The War Against the Vets
The War Against the Vets is the first book about the
Bonus Army to describe in detail the political battles that
threatened to tear the country apart, as well as the scandalous
treatment of the World War I vets.
is the first book about the
Bonus Army to describe in detail the political battles that
threatened to tear the country apart, as well as the scandalous
treatment of the World War I vets.