Posted on 01/11/2014 5:21:46 PM PST by chicagolady
Nonsense, my Texas school district was very conservative, it is why we learned American history.
Most of us that were educated before the last few decades, learned this stuff.
Remember, you failed to prove your claim. I knew you would, and you did.
This is when President Hoover(Republican) turned the Army on a group of WW1 vets who were marching and demanding a bonus that had been promised to them. Lt. General Douglas Mac Arthur was in command of the operation along with a young colonel by the name of Dwight Eisenhower. It’s a shameful chapter in American history.
I may be overgeneralizing but Marxists took over intelligentsia in the 1920s and have used academic tenure to perpetuate themselves to this day.
Not all members of university Arts and Humanities faculty are radical Leftists but if a history teacher at Southeast Alabama Community College writes a book about the Bonus March that differs from the established narrative, do you think the New York Times will review his book?
“That though does not make me (and others) a commie.”
I didn’t say or imply you were. It is an unfortunate reality, however, that even good intentioned people facilitate the perpetuation of the false propaganda the Leftists promote to implement their fundamental change of our society. One of the classic misconceptions the Leftists have promoted is a misunderstanding of the Posse Comitatus Act.
“Sort of like how whenever the TEA party gathers for a demonstration, there’s always a handful of democrat plants who say awful things and try to get the media to blame us?”
Yes, it is a classic ploy.
Note how the Bolsheviks used it in concert with other socialist and communist organizations to overthrow the Czarist regime and then liquidated their collaborators.
Here is my claim, I will let people decide for themselves on what they think about the Great Depression.
Actually hunger and inadequate diets, malnutrition, and slow starvation in some extreme cases, are known about the great depression, at least to most people.
Many of us had family that experienced it, and these men would have experienced it on the road and so far from home, it is what appears to have brought most of them to travel to DC in the first place, are you paying attention to this story at all?
You want to rage and attack people personally, but you don’t seem to be saying anything other than repeating over and over, that they weren’t facing starving and hunger.
If that is your opinion, then fine, to you it is all just Great Depression mythology, and poor people traveling at the time would not be dealing with such a problem, but your rage and hostility is off putting.
From what I have been reading they were granted tickets home and most veterans left. The commies and criminals stuck around.
President Herbert Hoover declared, “Nobody is actually starving. The hoboes are better fed than they have ever been.” But in New York City in 1931, there were 20 known cases of starvation; in 1934, there were 110 deaths caused by hunger. There were so many accounts of people starving in New York that the West African nation of Cameroon sent $3.77 in relief.
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/learning_history/children_depression/depression_children_menu.cfm
Well, thanks for clearing it all up.
Yeah, hunger and deficiencies, and malnutrition during the Great Depression is pretty well known.
It seems as though the same thing happened during VietNam.
Many were dirt/clay eaters in the South, like they do in Haiti still. Dandelion coffee, dandelion salad or greens, poke salad, squirrel, turtle, fat back, sassafras tea ( I LOVE sassafras!). I didn’t live through the depression but my granny did and she could cook ANYTHING and make it delicious!
Not so much in the Vietnam military since it was overwhelmingly volunteer, but that wasn’t the case in WWI and WWII, for instance the WWII Army was 93% draftees, in WWI 72% of the United States military was drafted.
Letting people decide something is not a “claim”. You know that. Remember, you failed to prove your claim. I knew you would, and you did.
Some here might like the 1940s movie “The Southerner”, youtube has it, it is a favorite of mine.
In my opinion it is much better than The Grapes of Wrath although it might not be directly about the Depression.
“The Southerner is a 1945 American film directed by Jean Renoir, based on the novel Hold Autumn in Your Hand by George Sessions Perry. The film received Oscar nominations for Best Director, Original Music Score and Sound. Renoir was named Best Director by the National Board of Review, which also named the film the third best of 1945.”
You really do have only one speed at freerepublic, wonderful input.
this is another example of the government breaking its promises to its Veterans... then punishing the Veterans because they objected to the government’s breach of trust..... well, boys and girls, we’re witnessing this once more under Prez 0Bamma... and the Vets will get crushed again!
Here is my claim, people can decide if it is accurate.
***To: vladimir998
Actually hunger and inadequate diets, malnutrition, and slow starvation in some extreme cases, are known about the great depression, at least to most people.
Many of us had family that experienced it, and these men would have experienced it on the road and so far from home, it is what appears to have brought most of them to travel to DC in the first place, are you paying attention to this story at all?
You want to rage and attack people personally, but you don’t seem to be saying anything other than repeating over and over, that they weren’t facing starving and hunger.
If that is your opinion, then fine, to you it is all just Great Depression mythology, and poor people traveling at the time would not be dealing with such a problem, but your rage and hostility is off putting.
74 posted on 1/11/2014 7:15:18 PM by ansel12***
“this is another example of the government breaking its promises to its Veterans... then punishing the Veterans because they objected to the government’s breach of trust..... well, boys and girls, we’re witnessing this once more under Prez 0Bamma... and the Vets will get crushed again!”
Where did you get the false idea the U.S. Government later broke a promise to the World War One veterans and committed a breach of trust later with respect to the pay they would receive when they enlisted or were commissioned in the services?
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