A largely unforgotten fight over veterans benefits

+ 'Black Panther' revives ancient cultures; energy crisis looms at COP27 US Edition - Today's top story: Remembering the veterans who marched on DC to demand bonuses during the Depression, only to be violently driven out by active-duty soldiers [View in browser]( US Edition | 11 November 2022 [The Conversation]( Veterans Day is a time to recognize the heroics our fellow Americans made on battlefields in distant lands. Less well-known are the political battles they fought here at home. One such fight was the Bonus Army march that occurred during the Great Depression. When congressional leaders refused to pay bonuses to World War I veterans much earlier than planned, as many as 30,000 of them marched on Washington to demand their pay. Herbert Hoover was president at the time, and his response became one of the few times in U.S. history the military was used to shut down peaceful protesters. In the summer of 1932, Hoover sent in federal troops, led by Gen. Douglas MacArthur, [who violently ousted the veterans from their makeshift encampments](. Not all went up in flames. As presidential scholar Shannon Bow O’Brien from the University of Texas at Austin College of Liberal Arts writes, the veterans soldiered on and were rewarded their bonuses four years later – a victory that paved the way for the GI Bill and other veterans benefits. Also today: - [Twitter alternative Mastodon, explained]( - [Unusual courses: Women used to justify war]( - [Did you follow our stories this week? Take the news quiz]( Howard Manly Race + Equity Editor The Bonus Army protesting on the U.S. Capitol steps on Jan. 2,1932. Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images [Remembering the veterans who marched on DC to demand bonuses during the Depression, only to be violently driven out by soldiers]( Shannon Bow O'Brien, The University of Texas at Austin College of Liberal Arts Thousands of volunteers joined the military during World War I. 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