Bonus Army
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bonus-army-231-4302083
title:
Bonus Army
text:
The Bonus Army was a group of 43,000 demonstrators – 17,000 veterans of U.S. involvement in World War I, their families, and affiliated groups – who gathered in Washington, D.C., in mid-1932 to demand early cash redemption of their service bonus certificates. Organizers called the demonstrators the Bonus Expeditionary Force (B.E.F.), to echo the name of World War I's American Expeditionary Forces, while the media referred to them as the "Bonus Army" or "Bonus Marchers". The demonstrators were le
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description:
1930s US veterans protest movement
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonus_Army
date created:
2003-12-13T14:52:58Z
date modified:
2024-09-15T21:15:25Z
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