1932: U.S. Army Kicks U.S. Veterans Out of Washington
In 1932 , 1000 of American veterans suffering from the poverty and unemployment of the Great Depression descend on Washington , D.C. to demand recompense for their service in World War I. Their two - calendar month demonstration did not end peacefully . billet of the Surgeon General , United States Army viaWikimedia Commons//Public Domain Pensions , benefits , and fillip had been put up to soldiers since the American Revolutionary War , butthese promise benefits were n’t always readily paid(or ante up at all ) ....