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<blockquote data-quote="Billybob" data-source="post: 2187712" data-attributes="member: 1294"><p>Similar but different, and the WWI vets weren't the first to do it...</p><p></p><p>[In 1781, most of the Continental Army was demobilized without pay. Two years later, hundreds of Pennsylvania war veterans marched on Philadelphia, then the capital, surrounded the State House where the U.S. Congress was in session, and demanded their pay. Congress fled to Princeton, New Jersey, and several weeks later, the U.S. Army expelled the war veterans from the national capital. In response to that experience, the federal district directly governed by the U.S. Congress,[3] Washington, D.C., was excluded from the restrictions of the Posse Comitatus Act which forbade the use of the U.S. military for domestic police activity...]</p><p></p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonus_Army" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonus_Army</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Billybob, post: 2187712, member: 1294"] Similar but different, and the WWI vets weren't the first to do it... [In 1781, most of the Continental Army was demobilized without pay. Two years later, hundreds of Pennsylvania war veterans marched on Philadelphia, then the capital, surrounded the State House where the U.S. Congress was in session, and demanded their pay. Congress fled to Princeton, New Jersey, and several weeks later, the U.S. Army expelled the war veterans from the national capital. In response to that experience, the federal district directly governed by the U.S. Congress,[3] Washington, D.C., was excluded from the restrictions of the Posse Comitatus Act which forbade the use of the U.S. military for domestic police activity...] [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonus_Army[/url] [/QUOTE]
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