TODAY IN HISTORY (Besides the Moon Landing) "The Bonus Army"

Bonus Army Marches on Washington 1932

After seeing the tear gas in Tehran last month, it is worth remembering another group of protesters who were gassed on July 20 1932 –American veterans of World War I who had come to Washington, D.C. to get what they deserved. Instead they got tear gas.

In the summer of 1932, the Depression's worst year, 25,000 former "doughboys"—World War I infantrymen, many of whom were combat veterans—walked, hitchhiked, or "rode the rails" to Washington, D.C. Organizing the