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To: nickcarraway

I figured you would bring up the Bonus Army. Remember, iit was the demonstrators who started the violence. Interestingly, FDR also opposed paying the veterans the bonus they were demanding, and it took years before they got their bonus.

It sounds as though MacArthur’s “insubordination” against FDR was rather minor.

However flawed MacArthur was, I’m not about to diss him. He was a hero of mine when I was a teenager and a major reason that I became a conservative.


68 posted on 07/10/2013 8:46:13 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: Fiji Hill
Remember, iit was the demonstrators who started the violence. Interestingly, FDR also opposed paying the veterans the bonus they were demanding, and it took years before they got their bonus.

LOL. Neither of those facts has the slightest to do with it. Were you ever in the military? Is it your experience you can disobey the order of a commanding officer, then say as an excuse, "But, sir, Roosevelt did this, and some other people did that." The CIC told him to stop the attack, and he started a new attack! Not even to mention it was against U.S. citizens on U.S. soil.

73 posted on 07/10/2013 10:34:40 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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