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Anacostia: The Night the Army Turned on Its Own Veterans
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- ISBN8233222818
- EAN9798233222818
- Date de parution01/02/2026
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- ÉditeurLinda Balsamo
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Anacostia: The Night the Army Turned on Its Own VeteransIn the spring of 1932, twenty thousand desperate World War I veterans rode freight trains to Washington, D. C., to demand immediate payment of bonus certificates the government had promised them in 1924. What followed was one of the most dramatic - and most revealing - confrontations in American history. The Bonus Expeditionary Force, as they called themselves, built an ordered community on Anacostia Flats, demonstrated a remarkable racial integration that scandalized federal authorities, and waited peacefully while the Senate debated and ultimately killed their bill.
On July 28, General Douglas MacArthur deployed cavalry, infantry, and tanks against the veterans, burning their encampment to the ground in a single night. The destruction of Anacostia Flats helped elect Franklin Roosevelt, directly shaped the creation of the G. I. Bill, and exposed a structural fault in the American social contract - the chronic gap between the nation's gratitude toward its soldiers and its willingness to honor what that gratitude actually costs.
This is the story of that gap, traced from 1783 to the present, through the men who marched, the men who burned them, and the nation that watched.
On July 28, General Douglas MacArthur deployed cavalry, infantry, and tanks against the veterans, burning their encampment to the ground in a single night. The destruction of Anacostia Flats helped elect Franklin Roosevelt, directly shaped the creation of the G. I. Bill, and exposed a structural fault in the American social contract - the chronic gap between the nation's gratitude toward its soldiers and its willingness to honor what that gratitude actually costs.
This is the story of that gap, traced from 1783 to the present, through the men who marched, the men who burned them, and the nation that watched.