As the veterans were here in Washington DC they had nowhere else to go because many of them had came from far away. Families waited here with their loved ones that had deserved the money.
Timothy and James are two kids of a veteran soldier that is trying to get his bonus down in Washington DC. “The children waking from sleep to cough and whimper from the tear gas in their lungs.” C.1932. The government did not want to give these poor families their money that they deserved and now their families are suffering..
As days passed on by the Veterans who foug
ht for our country grew tired of waiting for the money that the congress had promised. The veterans began
to protest for the sack of their families that does not really have a lot of money and who is relying on this.
10,000 veterans, wom
en and children were here at the capital of our country because they could not leave their families behind. In this picture you can see a group of young men who had fought in the war and were all hoping to get their money.
Spring and summer of 1932 some 17,000 veterans and their families were protesting at Washington D.C. many of the veterans worked since the beginning of the great depression. Sought immedieate cash payment.
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