In 1917 the U.S. entered world war one, many of our male citizens around the age of 18 were drafted of to France this was called the selective service. June of 1917 is when the first American troops landed in France. Within 18 months one hundred thousand soldiers were murdered and two hundred thousand soldiers were injured. Then the armorist was signed on November 11th 1918. Upon returning home soldiers were out of work and had no way to support neither themselves nor their families.
Since the veterans could not find work to support their families they decided to try and collect their military wages, but were denied in the process. In 1924 Congress granted the Universal Compensation Act, but would not grant them any money until 1945 or until death. When Hoover became president in 1928 seven months into his term the stock market crashed and the Great Depression began and 25 % of workers were unemployed …show more content…
The fact that they used the military against their own veterans and attacked them with gas was like making them re-live the horrific events that happened to them during the war. I was truly shocked to hear about how the government treated our veterans when they were only protesting in peace and had no true reason on why they should be thrown out of their shacks and had them burnt to the ground. Also, I still don’t seem to understand why Roosevelt or Hoover refused to grant the veterans their military wages, in my opinion, this series of events shouldn’t have happened and the veterans should have been paid for doing their time in war when they were forced to be drafted away from their families to fight instead of staying home and taking care of their loved ones. In conclusion, I’m glad they did eventually get the money they were guaranteed and I believe it’s never too late, the veterans fought for what they believed what was their right which is exactly what Americans have been doing since day