We Need A Hero! Remember the Bonus Army?

The real enemies of democracy were not the desperate veterans but the corporate and political elites who used soldiers as pawns, then discarded them when they were no longer useful.

We need a hero! In the depths of the Great Depression, as millions of Americans struggled to survive, a group of desperate men, the very soldiers who had fought and bled for their country, marched on Washington, D.C. They were the Bonus Army, World War I veterans demanding early payment of their promised military bonuses. Their cause was just, their dem…