I'm finally putting the pieces together about this reigning insanity and I don't like what I see.

[Bryn]

74. Got this from facebook

OccupyMARINES

HISTORY

"As World War I drew to a close in 1918, millions of American veterans returned home to the promise of a cash bonus — compensation for their overseas service. There was a catch, though: The money would not be paid out until 1945.
Then, the Great Depression struck. Millions of Americans were left hungry and homeless. Veterans of the war were desperate for relief.
So in 1932, a group of veterans in Portland, Ore., led by a man named Walter Waters, decided to go to Washington to lobby for early payment of their promised bonus. They called themselves the Bonus Army.
(The Bonus promised was for $1,000 to each veteran. Corporations of the war machine profited millions and billions, even in WW1.)
As they moved eastward, their idea caught on. Radio stations and newspapers began to pick up the story. Desperate veterans (some with their wives and children) from all over the country began jumping on freight trains, heading for the capital.
Retired Marine Corps Gen. Smedley Butler came to speak to the marchers:
"I never saw such fine Americanism as is exhibited by you people," he said. "You have just as much right to have a lobby here as any steel corporation. Makes me so damn mad, a whole lot of people speak of you as tramps. By God, they didn't speak of you as tramps in 1917 and '18", he said.
On June 15, the House of Representatives passed a bill to pay out the bonus. The Bonus marchers celebrated. But then the Senate turned it down and adjourned..."
The rest, is history.
http://www.npr.org/2011/11/11/142224795/the-bonus-army-how-a-protest-led-to-the-gi-bill
The Bonus Army, each video is 9 minutes:
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