Thread by @DSAVeterans

Everything for veterans is going to shit and Veterans Day was THIS WEEK.

Privatized medical care fucking veterans and now GI Bill payment system collapsing and to top it off the Commander in Chief shits on troops by deploying them to the border. TYFYS!

https://twitter.com/nikkiwentling/status/1062373565704617985?s=21

[chanted in the style of TEETH TEETH TEETH]

BONUS ARMY BONUS ARMY BONUS ARMY

https://twitter.com/alexhortontx/status/1063090356219244544?s=21

REAL BONUS ARMY HOURS, WHO UP?

When Black and white WWI vets came to D.C. in 1932 from across the country to demand their wartime bonus, they were attacked by U.S. gov't. with tanks under leadership of textbook heroes MacArthur, Patton, and Eisenhower. zinnedproject.org/materials/bonu…

the wealthy
masters of war
🖕 🎩
🏛 🤣
🇺🇸 |\👐
💰💰/ \_
━━━━┓ ＼＼
┓┓┓┓┃America’s discarded veterans
┓┓┓┓┃ ヽ🤕ノ
┓┓┓┓┃ 　 /
┓┓┓┓┃ ノ)
┓┓┓┓┃
┓┓┓┓┃
┓┓┓┓┃ _
┓┓┓┓┃ •.•) Bring back the
┓┓┓┓┃⊂ﾉ Bonus Army✊️
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With thousands of veterans now losing out on disability benefits and GI Bill/housing allowances they were promised, remember the BONUS ARMY

May, 1932: The ‘Bonus Army’ of Disgruntled Veterans Arrives in Washington, DC

@RichardKreitner in @thenation thenation.com/article/may-29…

Uhhhh it also resulted in the immediate payment of $2 billion dollars in overdue bonuses to veterans AND the passing of the monumental GI Bill 12 years later.

but also 69 cops were injured after viciously attacking the marching veterans and killing two wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonus_Army

First, the (ruling class) Senate killed a Bonus Bill. Then President Hoover sent 500 infantry troops, 500 cavalry, 6 tanks, and 800 cops to chase veterans away from the capitol cuz vets demanded what they were promised

The Army said the veterans were doing a communist uprising

“The Bonus Marchers [veterans], believing the troops were marching in their honor, cheered the [arriving] troops until Patton ordered the cavalry to charge them, which prompted the spectators to yell, "Shame! Shame!"

A bunch of officers and ruling class assholes had vets crushed

The highlighted portion is specifically referring to the Bonus Army. The GI Bill that has enabled so much socio-economic and education mobility amongst veterans and their families was a direct result of direct action.

DIRECT ACTION GETS THE GOODS

Do you have links to additional reading/research/articles/knowledge about the Bonus Army? Send them along by replying to this thread or DMing. There is much to glean from the lessons of the Bonus Army. The injustices of the past are now repeated once again. Always broken promises

And don’t forget that the reactionary American Legion opposed the Bonus Army because they have a bootlicking streak a mile wide

https://twitter.com/erikloomis/status/1061638607889412096?s=21

That time cowardly chump Army officer Patton denied the veteran who had saved Patton’s life in WWI because Patton’s battlefield savior had become an unemployed veteran marching with the Bonus Army in Washington, D.C. wearethemighty.com/articles/that-…

🅱️onus 🅰️rmy

https://twitter.com/nikkiwentling/status/1063442374725111810?s=21

BONUS ARMY

Veterans Occupy Wall Street (2011) @thenation thenation.com/article/vetera…

This is what we signed up for right? Nah?

https://twitter.com/ajenglish/status/926445175932686336?s=21

“In the United States, 22 million military veterans account for 7 percent of the population. But veterans make up about 12 percent of the adult homeless population”

Shelter: America's Homeless Veterans @AJEnglish aje.io/8shep

Number of homeless vets rises for first time in seven years militarytimes.com/veterans/2017/…

No, not nearly enough.

It’s impossible to keep track of the broken promises at this point. The GOP and corporate (neoliberal) Dems wipe their asses with the social contract between veterans and the state. Profit much?

This is how you get a new Bonus Army

https://twitter.com/ajplus/status/1063315982268002304?s=21

veterans are being sold out to capitalists who see us as profit sources. This is the reality in which we live nbcnews.com/news/us-news/v…

It has the same number of syllables so just change it to “Bonus Army” in your head

Retired USMC Major General (and socialist) Smedley Butler speaks to the Bonus Army (1933)

“The only trouble with you veterans is that you still believe in Santa Claus. It’s time you woke up—it’s time you realized there’s another war on [class war].” louisproyect.org/2011/10/19/sme…

Where is our damn Smedley Butler?

Veterans today need to stop believing in Santa Claus and wake up to the harsh realities of capitalism and the ruling class profiteers preying on us and our fellow workers of the proletariat

Remembering the Bonus Army: Where Are Today's Mass Nonviolent Protests? alternet.org/story/151812/r…

The Veterans' Bonus March, Washington DC 1932

How veterans set the precedent for America’s greatest protests #BonusArmy businessinsider.com/veterans-prote…

The Bonus March (May-July, 1932) pbs.org/wgbh/americane… via @AmExperiencePBS