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Originally Posted by Garth Gustafson
There’s a high cost for our country’s freedom and security. And of course it falls disproportionately on the shoulders of our servicemen and women - the 1% who serve. My sense is today with our all volunteer military the country is more appreciative and supportive of our servicemembers. Sadly, that wasn’t the case in past conflicts and it breaks my heart to think about all the men and women, past and present who live with their physical and emotional wounds every day.
Thank you all for all you have done.
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Its getting better…..
On June 17, 1783, Congress received a message from soldiers of the Continental Army stationed in Philadelphia, which demanded payment for their service during the American Revolutionary War. The soldiers threatened to take action that day if their complaints were not addressed. Congress ignored their message, but the soldiers did not act on their threat. Two days later, however, the Congress received word that a group of about 80 soldiers had left their post at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, approximately 60 miles (97 km) west of Philadelphia, and had joined with the soldiers stationed at the city barracks. The group of approximately 500 men had effective control over the weapons stores and munition depot.
George Washington, on hearing of "the mutiny" on the 24th June, sent 1500 troops under the command of Major General William Heath and General Robert Howe, who came out of retirement, to suppress the mutiny. Some of the mutineers ended up in a state of arrest, and Congress called an investigation into the event.
https://medium.com/war-is-boring/whe...c-77fdc23a1159 Every generation of soldiers has problems, but most haven’t left the military only to later be attacked by it. But that’s what happened to thousands of veterans who served in the trenches of World War I. In 1932, 17,000 former soldiers marched on Washington, D.C. to demand wartime pay owed to them.
Hoover ordered the military to remove the protesters from the city at once. Gen. Douglas MacArthur — then the U.S. Army’s Chief of Staff — led the 12th Infantry Regiment and the 3rd Cavalry Regiment into the fray.
The cavalry regiment contained six Renault FT tanks commanded by Maj. George Patton. The Army troops, with bayonets affixed to their rifles, charged into the shanty town and launched tear gas into the crowds.
Patton’s tanks crushed the makeshift buildings.
The veterans fled across the Anacostia River, and Hoover ordered the assault to stop. But MacArthur saw the protesters as communist agitators intent on overthrowing the U.S. government, and continued the operation.
More than 1,000 injured veterans ended up in area hospitals. One veteran died and a veteran’s wife miscarried.
MacArthur ....... in my opinion he was a terrible man. Sure he and his father both were awarded a Congressional Medal Of Honor but I always suspected they were given because of connections. He did this and then in WWII cost many men their lives because his ego had to fight for the Philippine islands when he could have gone around them with the same outcome.