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Mickey Z
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the Department of Homeland Security.
Sunday, August 28, 2005
The Bonus Army, Mickey Z. on your dial, and our latest photo caption winner
When did the U.S. Government ever “support the troops”?
In the spring and summer of 1932, disgruntled, broke, and unemployed veterans got the idea to demand payment on the future worth of bonus certificates given out after WWI. Anywhere from 17,000 to 25,000 former doughboys formed a Bonus Expeditionary Force (BEF), otherwise known as the “Bonus Army,” and-bonus certificates in hand-they marched on Washington to picket Congress and President Herbert Hoover.
While they may have fought in Europe as an integrated army, the men of the BEF did not invite Jim Crow to this battle. Arriving from all over the country, alone or with wives and children, both black and white veterans huddled together, mostly across the Potomac River from the Capitol, in what were called “Hoovervilles,” in honor of the president who adamantly refused to hear their pleas.
To read the complete article, please click here:
http://www.globalresistancenetwork.com/mz_bonusarmy.html
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Behold the winning caption for last week’s contest:
“If you tell two friends about Faberge Organics shampoo with wheat germ oil and honey, they’ll tell two friends, and so on..and so on...and so on...”
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