Essay On Bonus Marches

America’s government has not always been fair throughout history. As a nation that prides itself on the freedom and equal justice given and administered to its people, there have been times when it has not been ideally American. The Bonus Marches was a definitive example of this, as the veterans demanded compensation for fighting to uphold these equal American justices, but were turned away and harmed for trying to receive compensation, not being delivered the equal justices and freedoms they fought for. Roosevelt was a man of the people that fought for the people. He was a major contribution to the founding of America and believed in all of its ideas, but one thing he wouldn't of done would of been giving compensation to the Bonus Marchers. I feel he would of done the same as Hoover, not intruding in the matter, as he would of believed the recovery of America would be better without giving the money to them, letting the government decide a more important place instead. It wouldn't of been that they didn't deserve the money, it would of been the fact there was more important places to spend it. Hoover and Roosevelt may have shared the same ideas in this matter, instead of being a “take the …show more content…
It was more of a “make them be quiet” thing, rather than voluntarily procuring compensation for them after the war. They were paid in 1936 with the “Adjusted Payment Compensation Act” as a result of protests that had gone on for an extended period of time, finally receiving what they asked for for so long. Regardless of being paid finally, it wasn't so satisfying for some, as they truly wondered why it took so long to receive these payments, when America's government wanted them to win the war hastily. It was a double standard and there is no doubt most of those veterans and I are offended of the amount of time it took to process a payment such as this, denying them for so