Featured on Today in History on Wikipedia. Photo: Members of the Bonus Army camped out on the lawn of the U.S. Capitol building. &quot;The Bonus Army was the popular name of an assemblage of some 43,000 marchers—17,000 World War I veterans, their families, and affiliated groups—who gathered in Washington, D.C., in the spring and summer of 1932 to demand immediate cash-payment redemption of their service certificates.&quot; Hoover sent the army to clear them out after a conflict with police July 28…