I always remember hearing about this. Though my grandfather did not go to Washington to march he did talk about it for he did fight in World War One in Europe some did not, and I still have his uniform and medals. Yet what strikes me about this book is these veterans were promised something and this was not the first or last time that the politicians from Washington would take back on that promise. Yes, there was depression but some of these same men were the reason for that as well, forgiving foreign debt that was credited by banks in the ’20s when people were told what would happen yet they still chose to wipe out debt from around the world. Now you have all of the player's presidents, men who would become President Congressmen, and Senators playing the game then coming up with the G.I. bill that will be changed throughout the years, decades. The reason I am still pissed is for many reasons.
One these men marched without entering any buildings, two men veterans did die from being shot by the police, Hoover did send in the Army and MacArthur even brought tanks with him. Since then the government would continue to change benefits for the G.I.’s most people don’t know this yet my family has fought in every war and I have seen the changes, now just this week the people in Washington vetoed again to take away benefits for veterans so this book has many meanings for me even though I am not explaining it all that well. A very good book.