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Contents 1 Casualties 2 Gas 3 who was the bonus armys leader and what did he do to get there? 4 Benefits 5 Posse Comitatus 6 The numbers gathered 7 Additional Material 8 What happened to the bonus? 9 AMJ 10 Burning the Camp

[edit] Casualties

Is there any substantiation to the claim that the three veterans were "accidentally shot", or is this speculation?

What were the exact casualty numbers?

[edit] Gas

IT WASN'T TEAR GAS THAT WAS USED ON THE BONUS MARCHERS BUT AN ARSENICAL CALLED ADEMSITE. THIS IS A TOXIC DEVELOPED IN WORLD WAR I AND PRODUCED IN SMOKE CANDLES (5 POUND CANISTERS THAT WERE LIT TO PRODUCE A DENSE POISONOUS SMOKE. IT IS A VOMITING AGENT, BUT ALSO QUITE TOXIC. THE GAS WAS STOCKPILED AT CAMP SIMMS AND THEREAFTER BURIED WHEN IT BECAME OBSOLETE. THE ARSENIC IN THE GROUNDWATER EXISTS TO THIS DAY.

I would suggest that you read the article on Adamsite for better information on its properties. Adamsite may have been toxic, it was not lethal. Indeed, it was intended to be used as a means of getting troops out of their protective masks so that lethal agents could create casualties. Besides, the amount that was produced would have been kept at Fort Meade, Maryland, which was where the Chemical Corps Headquarters was located at the time. - SSG Cornelius Seon (Retired) 10:04, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] who was the bonus armys leader and what did he do to get there?

He walked of course!!!! who was the leader of the bonus army and what did he do before he led the bonus army to fight for unpaid tuitions.

• • • • W.W. Waters, a vet from Portland, took a lot of responsibility for the March. It was fairly spontanious, although there were many precedents for it (Communist marhces and other veteran marches)... Basically, Waters, before the march, was unemployed. He had been an assistant supervisor as an Oregon cannery before being laid off at the beginning of the depression. He wrote a first-person account, B.E.F.: The Whole Story of the Bonus Army that's a pretty good resouce, although I don't think he's too reliable a narrator. He, and a contigent from Portland got there at first by rail hopping, then governors would simply truck them across their states. other marchers got to D.C. any way they could (walk, rails, cars, whatnot).

[edit] Benefits

What were the "certain benefits" they were protesting about?

Congress voted to given the WWI vets money, but the checks wouldn't be written until the mid-1940s. the bonus army wanted the money immediately. Kingturtle 07:37, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Posse Comitatus

Washington, DC is not a location where the Posse Comitatus Act applies because it is Federal property under the direct governance of the the united States Congress. In order for the Act to apply to DC, DC would have to be made a State. SSG Cornelius Seon (Retired) 05:19, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The numbers gathered

In a modern history book, it states that 20,000 men gathered not 31,000. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.36.162.224 (talk) 23:38, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

Modern history textbooks can be unreliable. Read the bokks written by James W. Loewen and Howard Zinn to learn more about this. --Ye Olde Luke (talk) 01:46, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] Additional Material

I added George patton's own report, and the Associated Press Article - both from Volume I of The Patton Papers. These two sections are the most detailed I could find. SSG Cornelius Seon (Retired) 20:20, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] What happened to the bonus?

What happened to the bonus, did they get it in 1945? S Sepp 14:21, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

According to the way that the article ends now, they got it in 1936, after lots of them took FDR's offer of building a highway to the Florida Keys and some then died there in the Great Hurricane of 1935. Rlquall 18:17, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] AMJ

Who is "AMJ"? The article doesn't explain. microchip08 10:41, 14 October 2007 (UTC).

I'm not sure where in the article you see AMJ, but it might mean American Jurisprudence. --Ye Olde Luke (talk) 01:48, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Burning the Camp

These two sentences make little sense, and are usourced:

"Although the public states the army burned down their camp, the bonus marchers burned their own camp. The army had helped set up the tents, shacks, and other dwellings."

Which armies are we talking about when? The Bonus Army or the US Army? Plus these sentences need some sort of source. I'm inclined to reomve them until these issues are resolved, but I'll leave them up for discussion. --Mijunkin (talk) 15:54, 8 January 2008 (UTC)