How about this operation: Why Trump wants to help the vets!
On July 28, 1932, Patton received orders from U.S. Army Chief of Staff Douglas MacArthur to disperse the World War I veterans seeking cash payments for their veterans’ bonus certificates who had occupied Washington, D.C., for two months. Charging down Pennsylvania Avenue and through the streets of the national capital, Patton led 600 cavalry troops on horseback who fired tear gas into the “Bonus Marchers,” trampled civilian observers including Connecticut Senator Hiram Bingham and beat protestors with the flats of their swords.
I knew that one.
The government owed the bonuses to the veterans but gave them nothing.
I blame the President who ordered it, not the officers who carried it out.
Did you know:
In 1915, while on Gen Jack Pershings staff in Mexico, Patton led a patrol to look for corn for the horses of the US army.
As the patrol approached a farm, Patton left half his patrol to guard the road approaching the farm.
When he entered the farm he surprised one of the top aids of Pancho Vila, the reason for the American military incursion into Mexico.
During the shootout, he shot one of the bandits. He had to stop firing at one point to reload his pistol. In all, two Mexican bandits were killed.
Patton returned to headquarters with the dead bandits strapped to the hood of the car he was driving.
General Pershing thereafter called him George “Bandito” Patton.
After that action Patton started wearing two pistols.