Bonus Army

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🗓️ 29 January 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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The Bonus Army was a group of 43,000 demonstrators – 17,000 veterans of U.S. involvement in World War I, their families, and affiliated groups – who gathered in Washington, D.C., in mid-1932 to demand early cash redemption of their service bonus certificates. Organizers called the demonstrators the Bonus Expeditionary Force (B.E.F.), to echo the name of World War I's American Expeditionary Forces, while the media referred to them as the "Bonus Army" or "Bonus Marchers". The demonstrators were led by Walter W. Waters, a former sergeant.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to citation needed.
0:25.3	Podcast where you choose a subject,
0:26.9	read a single article about it on Wikipedia,
0:28.7	and pretend we're experts.
0:30.5	This is the internet, and that's how it works now.
0:32.9	I'm Heath, and I'll be leading this military operation.
0:36.3	My call sign is Tall sign, obviously.
0:40.6	And I'm joined by the usual squadron.
0:43.0	First up, we have Tom, Paul sign, Gravy Seal.
0:46.7	And Noah, Paul Sign, Marine Coronary.
0:53.0	Gravy Seal, that's a call sign I wasn't just given Heath
0:56.2	But I earned
0:57.3	I guess somber fie
0:59.9	And we also have
1:04.7	Eli call sign fly BS
1:07.1	And Cecil something battalion
1:10.2	Amazing To be untrue To be untrue? IBS and Cecil something battalion.
1:11.9	Amazing.
1:13.7	To be untrue?
1:14.6	To be untrue?
1:18.5	Keith, I'm going to boop your nose here.
1:22.9	We separately wrote the exact same joke on the exact same episode.
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