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To: GeronL

Sorry, I fail to see the comparison. The WW I vets were not tax protesters, they were simply asking to have the date of payment of their rightfully-earned bonus moved up from 1945. You don’t send troops on horseback to charge through an encampment of veterans, many of whom were disabled, out of work, hungry, destroying their tents and belongings and physically chasing them out. The whole affair was shameful.

MacArthur was a pompous ass and should have been fired long before Truman finally did it.


63 posted on 09/23/2014 11:54:34 AM PDT by beelzepug (You can't fix a broken washing machine by washing more expensive clothes in it.)
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To: beelzepug

who ordered MacArthur to do that?


64 posted on 09/23/2014 11:55:51 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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