[ClearCase_guy]

What’s with the BS? You quote from wikipedia. So do I. Link is below, table on the right hand side lists casualties.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonus_army

[jpsb]

"This so-called Bonus Army gathered at the Capital Building on the 17th of June as the Senate was prepared to vote on a bill that had already been passed by the House of Representatives and that would have moved forward the time when the veterans could receive their cash bonuses. But the Senate blocked the bill. Many of the marchers then refused to leave a federal construction site. A fight broke out with police, resulting in casualties on both sides. It was at this point that President Herbert Hoover ordered federal troops armed with unsheathed bayonets and tear gas, under the overall command of General Douglas MacArthur, to repel the protestors.

DC police got into a brawl with the marchers, not the federal government. It was in response to that brawl that the feds got involved.