David Alvarenga field notes on bonus army

May 1932, Washington, D.C
Walter W. Waters was a former Army Sergeant in the United States Army. These veterans were all seeking pensions promised to them by Congress in a 1924 act.



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Here are members of the so-called Bonus Army during the uprising and government intervention of July 29, 1932. They staged a protest in Washington, DC in hopes of obtaining payment of a World War I bonus.

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1932, Washington, D.C.
What is handpainted onto the bonus army truck in this picture states "We Done a Good Job in France, Now You Do a Good Job in America"


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Washington, D.C. 1932.
The Bonus Army assembled some 43,000 marchers including 17,000 World War I veterans, their families, and affiliated group to protest. They demanded their bonus cash-payment redemption of their service certificates granted to them eight years earlier via the Adjusted Service Certificate Law of 1924.






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Portland Oregon, May 1932

Walter water set off from Portland going on a 3,000 mile journey to Washington D.C. Soon joined by thousand s of other World War I veterans they sought to claim the bonus the Army was set to pay them, though not until 1945.




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