The "Bonus Expeditionary Force", a group of impoverished World War I veterans seeking service compensation, arrive in Washington D.C. to pressure President Herbert Hoover and Congress. Dubbed the Bonus Army, these veterans and their families had been financially crippled during the Great Depression and set up camps in the nation's capital.
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