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To: skeeter

Vets protested and camped out in DC in the 20’s. Gen. McArthur rousted them out...some died. Eisenhower was involved, as I remember it.

58 posted on 10/14/2013 7:50:47 AM PDT by jch10 ("Normandy was closed when we got there too!")

To: jch10

Your memory isn’t faulty. That was the Bonus March during the Depression, I don’t know what year.

72 posted on 10/14/2013 8:48:26 AM PDT by popdonnelly (The right to self-defense is older than the Constitution.)

To: jch10

“...Vets protested and camped out in DC in the 20’s. Gen. McArthur rousted them out...some died. Eisenhower was involved, as I remember it...”

It was spring/summer of 1932.

73 posted on 10/14/2013 8:51:01 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)

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