Unchained Preppers
General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: JohnyMac on December 20, 2011, 03:55:20 PM
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Interesting piece of US history. I wonder if the Occupy Wallstreet group got the idea from this. If you want to read the whole thing here is the link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonus_Army (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonus_Army)
Let me set the stage. Approximately 20,000 WW I veteran solderers and their family's wanted their service pentions in 1932 Vs. the agreed date to collect in 1945. The reason they wanted their pension early was due to the depression. The US House passed the Wright Patman Bonus Bill allowing for the pensions to be paid out but the bill never made it to the floor of the Senate.
Here is a short excerpt of the clearing out of the Hooverville by US Infantry and Calvery. There a lot of parells to today.
"U.S. Army intervention At 4:45 p.m., commanded by Gen. Douglas MacArthur, the 12th Infantry Regiment, Fort Howard, Maryland, and the 3rd Cavalry Regiment, supported by six battle tanks commanded by Maj. George S. Patton, formed in Pennsylvania Avenue while thousands of civil service employees left work to line the street and watch. The Bonus Marchers, believing the troops were marching in their honor, cheered the troops until Patton ordered the cavalry to charge them?an action which prompted the spectators to yell, "Shame! Shame!"
Shacks that members of the Bonus Army erected on the Anacostia Flats burning after the confrontation with the military. After the cavalry charged, the infantry, with fixed bayonets and adamsite gas, an arsenical vomiting agent, entered the camps, evicting veterans, families, and camp followers. The veterans fled across the Anacostia River to their largest camp and President Hoover ordered the assault stopped. However Gen. MacArthur, feeling the Bonus March was a Communist attempt to overthrow the U.S. government, ignored the President and ordered a new attack. Fifty-five veterans were injured and 135 arrested.[10] A veteran's wife miscarried. When 12-week-old Bernard Myers died in the hospital after being caught in the tear gas attack, a government investigation reported he died of enteritis, while a hospital spokesman said the tear gas "didn't do it any good."[14]
During the military operation, Major Dwight D. Eisenhower, later President of the United States, served as one of MacArthur's junior aides.[15] Believing it wrong for the Army's highest-ranking officer to lead an action against fellow American war veterans, he strongly advised MacArthur against taking any public role: "I told that dumb son-of-a-bitch not to go down there," he said later. "I told him it was no place for the Chief of Staff."[16] Despite his misgivings, Eisenhower later wrote the Army's official incident report which endorsed MacArthur's conduct.[17]"
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I had know about the 'Bonus Army' and their fate but I had never know the names involved.. that puts a new face on those three men. Looks like I need to reread my history now that the colour of my glasses isn't so rosy.
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TG, [URL=http://www.smileyvault.co
More then anything I just find it interesting in that how similar the OWS group mirrored this part of our history.
I am now doing a little more research on "Hoovervilles." The reason is will their be Obamavilles?
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TG,
More then anything I just find it interesting in that how similar the OWS group mirrored this part of our history.
I am now doing a little more research on "Hoovervilles." The reason is will their be Obamavilles?
There already are Obamavilles across the country. Seven in the county I live in.
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I can only imagine Sledge.
No BS here, I feel for you being in central FL. Or any part of Florida south of I-10.
I hope that you CC and are constantly looking over your shoulder.
I relayed an incident in an earlier post about 20+ folks coming out of nowhere ready to attach my car post Hurricane Andrew in Miami...well...here is another story.
1996
I was away on business and my wife being who she is (Ain't afraid of anything) drove to central FL. for a frog leg festival. She left the festival at dusk and on her way home to Ft. Pierce a bunch of men jumped out in front of her car and tried to flag her down as she drove through a back water town.
Well my wife isn't a dumby- She stepped on the accelerator and laid on the horn. She drove through town as fast as her Saturn would take her with men diving for cover.
When she got back to the boat she called me and told me the story. Of course I was at fault because I was not home. :)) However, it was the first time in my life that I had ever heard my wife scared. I mean TOTALY SCARED!
I fear for you and your family.
Just a side note: There was 28 murders in Rhode Island last year. Of which all but two (I think) the perps were caught. Granted, RI is a bit smaller then FL but...How many murders were there in FL?
Sledge, please take care of your self.