| Nearly everyone is here, a bonus army of retired men and women, because of the ice at home. |
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| At one point, members of the Bonus Army actually occupied four government buildings along Pennsylvania Avenue. |
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| One thousand impoverished veterans and their families, calling themselves the Bonus Army, came to Washington in May to lobby for the bill. |
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| President Hoover finally authorized General Douglas MacArthur to remove the Bonus Army by force. |
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| Some looked for violence to be incited within the Bonus Army, others an assassination attempt on the President, and still others the beginning of a bloody revolution to bring down the Republic. |
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| These Bonus Army men, with an average age of 40, often impaired either in body or mental stability, were among the hardest hit by the Great Depression. |
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