Good article on how bad it is in the US compared to days gone by... http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/04/11/greene.jobless.veterans/index.html?hpt=C2 I had never heard of the "bonus army" before.
Good post. Gratitude. They should have taxed Rockefeller and Carnegie for it. But no parallel can be drawn between the Bonus Army and the gun toters descending on Washington April 19th. (...not sure its Washington but the media keeps saying it is) If a few of them get picked off for not cooperating with the authorities then their little Chuck Norris wet dreams would be to blame.
The Bonus Marchers, believing the display was in their honour, cheered the troops until Maj. Patton ordered the cavalry to charge them â an action which prompted the civil service spectators to yell, "Shame! Shame!"