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WASHINGTON — Members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars gathered on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on Monday to pay tribute to the 1932 Bonus Army expeditionary force with a march and speeches around ...

Now in 1932, the men, who called themselves the Bonus Army, were dubbing the deferred payment the “Tombstone Bonus,” because, they said, many of them would be dead by the time the government paid it.

Army Chief of Staff and Maj. Gen. Douglas MacArthur watched a brigade of steel-helmeted soldiers precisely align themselves in a straight four-column phalanx, bayonets affixed to rifles. He nodded his ...