A great find. I was searching for an example like what happened to the Bonus Army. Not being a history buff, my search only covered the deportations caused by the rise of illegal immigration. I can imagine the Great Depression world wide. There would have been a huge pressure for people in affected countries to do anything to get to America. I have a great Irish grandfather who stole away on a ship to get into America.
I’m not much of a scholar based on the bar set by many in here, but I remember the Bonus March because it discolored my previously high opinion of Eisenhower, and to a lesser extent of Patton.
Though I understand they were under orders at the time (from that megalomaniac MacArthur), it was still a shameful episode.
A derisive ditty about ol’ Blood and Guts George that was apparently heard from more than a few GIs was ‘our blood, his ‘guts’.