Real American History: When the Military in Washington D.C. Attacked and Killed American Veterans Who Wanted to be Paid During the Great Depression

A period of U.S. history that I was never taught growing up and going through the U.S. educational system, is how the U.S. Government and the U.S. military treated U.S. war veterans who had fought during Word War I during the Great Depression. Tens of thousands of U.S. veterans from World War I marched to Washington D.C. in 1932, to petition Congress to pay them their compensation for fighting in the War. A bill had been passed in 1924 to do just that, but they had to wait until 1945 to collect that "bonus", or it could be paid earlier to their family as a death benefit if they died. Many of them were homeless and destitute, like millions of other Americans, during the Great Depression in 1932. They literally setup camp in areas around Washington D.C. that year, and their efforts saw some results when the House of Representatives passed a bill to pay them sooner than 1945. But President Herbert Hoover threatened to veto the bill, and it was overwhelmingly defeated in the Senate. When the war veterans did not go home, Hoover ordered to have the veterans removed from Washington D.C. Army Chief of Staff General Douglas MacArthur, along with his assistant Major Dwight D. Eisenhower, usually revered as "heroes" in American history (Eisenhower went on to become President), proceeded to attack and kill some of these U.S. veterans to forcibly remove them from Washington D.C., calling them "communists". (President Hoover was a "self-made" Wall Street millionaire and a Conservative Republican.) Hoover lost his re-election bid a few months later, and was replaced by Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR). I have produced a video that documents these events in 1932, including original film footage and photos, that is only 30 minutes long.