Veterans For Peace Radio is directly involved with Chapter 9 of Veterans For Peace, The Smedley Butler Brigade. After WWI the veterans who fought received 60 and a train ticket home. He also had a great impact on working Americans during the Great Depression, condemning the use of military force led by MG MacArthur against veterans in “Hoovervilles” in Washington DC. Butler had the corporatists believe he’d do this, then exposed them nationally. Bonus Army marchers, left, in a confrontation with Washington, D.C. His civilian career was also distinguished, particularly in 1934, when some corporate entities requested his leading 500,000 soldiers in a coup against FDR. On July 28, little more than a week after Butler’s speech, the Bonus Expeditionary Force was forcibly removed from their camps one on Constitution and another on Pennsylvania Ave., and the largest, located across the river in Anacostia. The group is named after 1920s-era Marine Gen. Butler Brigade of Veterans for Peace and drew about 200 people. He served with distinction throughout his career and was awarded the Medal of Honor twice, along with the Brevet Medal, (the equivalent of the MoH in the Marine Corps during a period when officers did not receive the MoH, essentially making him the only person to be awarded the nation’s highest military honor 3 times). Meet Task Force Butler, the brainchild of Kristopher Goldsmith, a veteran of the Iraq War and a longtime advocate for veterans’ rights. The rally at the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center in Roxbury was organized by the Smedley D. In retirement, he mainly avoided Marine Corps politics, and as a public figure dwelt upon larger issues of crime, gangsterism, imperialism, war and peace. Near the end it shows Butler in shirtsleeves, urging on 10,000 of the war veterans. Smedley Darlington Butler was a USMC major General with a 33 year career. Smedley Darlington Butler (1881-1940) blew the whistle on the little- known.
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