Of course you don't remember this particular piece of history. Do you honestly think a nation which uses military force against its own citizens would allow them to remember it? Never. It had to be scrubbed from the history books.

Well, I happened to be a fellow alum of both Gen MacA and Ike, and we did take a look at this during a military ethics class. Some issues that need to be taken into account -
1) DC isn't a state and thus Posse Comitatus prohibits the federal military from enforcing state laws. Since DC is a federal zone, federal troops are not covered by PC in this situation.
2) Remember this was the depths of the Great Depression. The original proposal for the bonus payment was that it was to be deferred until 1945 but instead 1/2 of it was paid earlier. The nation did not have the remainder of the payment money and being on the gold standard at the time, could not just print the money.
3) There was a communist instigator (don't remember the name) who is suspected of ramping up tensions in order to bring down the US gov't.
4) Despite the newsreel footage, the evacuation of the shantytown was orderly and without incident. What remained was burned down so as to dissuade the protestors from returning. While tear gas was used, the only injuries were caused on an earlier day when the DC police chief (who was actually helping the protestors) was attacked by the protestors with a policeman being knocked out by a thrown rock and the police returning fire and killing 2 of the protesters.
5) The show of force by MacA was meant to be just that - a show. As will materialize more fully during WWII and later in Korea, MacA was quite a showman and want-to-be politician.

Most of the wars America has been involved in over the past 100+ years have been put-up jobs.

Remember the Maine? There's evidence the Maine exploded, not due to sabotage, but due to system malfunction. But it got us the Spanish-America War.

We got into WWII by cutting off Japan's supply of steel. They really had no choice but to attack us.

Vietnam was even more of a con job. The "Gulf of Tonkin" incident is now known to have been a lie.

The Gulf Wars? Weapons of Mass distraction?

Obama wanted to get a war going with Syria - but the weight of evidence is on the side of Asad and the Syrian government regarding the use of chemical weapons.

And why did Obama lob cruise missiles at Ghadaffi?

So if nobody wants to serve in the future… maybe that's a good thing. The US manufactures and ships trillions of dollars of resources to other countries just to blow them up and kill thousands of Americans for no purpose other than to enrich the military-industrial complex. What if we didn't do that? What if we spent those trillions on make America better?

You are just ignorant.

It was a very different time, and MacA was a very different type of soldier. The entire situation was bad. The gov't reneged on a promise (granted, in the depths of the depression), the vets demanding payment from a gov't that couldn't possibly pay such under the fiscal system at the time, a military commanded to march on vets. All in all, the outcome was certainly not as devastating as it potentially could have been.

And yes, they do teach this in military ethics - you might find my other reply elsewhere in this topic.

You are clearly ignorant of the military mind. Those who "were seeking action" get the rush of the situation of life/death - NOT that they are out to kill others. It is similar to those that are addicted to first person shooter games.