#THER BUND MOVEMENT SMEDLEY BUTLER SERIES#
‘The Liberator’ is a visually stunning and grim World War II series unlike any other.It doesn’t go by justice, it goes by votes! And if you want your bonus, you’ll get the votes, and you can have 10 times the bonus if you get the votes.” More great stories on Task & Purpose This isn’t a question of whether it’s right for you to have the bonus or not - things don’t go that way. This is not a business of party, this is a business of the people. And if he doesn’t say anything, he’s against you, and when you go to the polls, lick the hell out of him!” “When you exercise your right as a citizen, which is voting, remember that everybody who’s not with you is against you, there’s no such thing as a middle course,” Butler said during his speech. And if Congress doesn’t want to listen to you and doesn’t want to provide you with that bonus, well, you vote them out of office.'”Īnd Butler’s words that day, all those years ago, still bear true: “That’s where someone like Smedley Butler comes in and is telling these guys, ‘you fight long and hard for what you’ve earned, and whether it’s these bonuses or it’s something else, you know, you have the magic key, and it’s called the ability to vote and use that vote wisely. government, as you know, has taken back or rescinded a promise that they made, and to give up so easily, just wouldn’t have been the right thing to do,” Nevgloski told Task & Purpose. Had it not been for the thousands who endured the sweltering summer heat of Washington, who faced down police barricades and batons, and stood shoulder-to-shoulder as tear gas was hurled by armed troops, it’s unlikely any of that would have come to pass. Bill of Rights into law, providing education and housing benefits as an immediate reward for honorable military service. In the ensuing years, the march of the Bonus Army spurred sweeping changes in how the federal government supported and cared for its service members once the fighting had ended, and in July 1944, Roosevelt signed the G.I.
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