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Saturday, February 12, 2011

Bonus Army - Ideal Park

03 Aug 1932, Ideal Park, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA --- Pennsylvania: Bonus Army Votes To Go Home. The B. E. F. today, Aug., 3, voted unanimously to evacuate their camp at Ideal Park, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, and go home. Eddie McCluskey, fiery red-haired Mayor and sponsor of the Bonus army's occupation of Johnstown, ordered the veterans to leave and announced that he had arranged with the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad for passenger service for all. Photo Shows - A group of veterans from Spokane, Washington, resting under a canvas, as rain today, turned the camp into a muddy field. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Decades later this country still doesn't give our servicemen the treatment they deserve.