The Bonus Army was the 43,000 marchers - 17,000 U.S. WWI veterans, their families who gathered in DC during the summer of 1932 to demand cash payment redemption of their service certificates. Later on, President Herbert Hoover ordered the Army to kick them out.
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Seeing it from the other perspective, it seems like Hoover's only option was to have them removed by the army. He just couldn't put sufficient funds together to pay them, and it also wasn't time to pay them yet as well. He must have felt bad that he had to deny these veterans their payments, but the only thing at the time that was happening was chaos, and he was forced to make a tough decision. Hoover was trying his best to help the people who were struggling, but his best wasn't enough to do it.
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