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Who made up the bonus army that marched on washington

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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 bonus certificates.
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