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What was the Bonus Army? Who were in it and what was their overall goal?

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The Bonus Army was a group of 43,000 demonstrators made up of 17,000 U.S. World War I veterans. Together with their families and affiliated groups, who gathered in Washington, D.C. in mid-1932 to demand early cash redemption of their service certificates.

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