Uh-Oh Army

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All I have to say about troops attacking civilians (and their own) is The Bonus Army.

(They kind of remind you of Trump supporters with all their American flags flying on vehicles)

When the Army Attacked Veterans: The Bonus Army-Documentary

Exactly.

I live not far from a place where the government actually dropped bombs on dissidents from airplanes, and sent in troops with machineguns to settle a labor dispute. It was an incident called The Battle of Blair Mountain. I'm not very big on labor unions given their chequered history in these parts, but I'm also not very big on government interfering just to ramp up the violence. That just gives the unions a reason to get more brutal, until everything spirals out of control. I used to have to live through that mess every 3 years like clockwork, whenever the UMWA contracts came up for "renegotiation". One of my friends, a guy I grew up with, got his head blown off during such a "renegotiation", and no one was ever arrested for it, to this day.

It's one of the many reasons that trust in government is hard to find around here. Our experiences over the past 150 or 160 years have proven the government to be untrustworthy. We've seem what they're after, and it ain't our best interests. We KNOW that you can't trust government as far as you can throw it - we've seen it first-hand, with our own eyes.

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The Bonus Army was one of the first things I thought of too.

If they would have loaded us up from Nam and told us to roll in hot on some of the university/protesters I think we would have done it and enjoyed the mayhem. There was much hate on both sides of the great divide in America at that time.

When Nixon was looking like he was going to be impeached they loaded up the first Cav on a train out of Fort Hood, Texas; full armored division and were waiting for orders to head to D.C. The orders never came as the Airfarce said no to the Coup. They were pissed at the orders they had to follow during the raids of North Vietnam given by McNamara or so the story goes...

This is a story given to me by an Army Major (who I believed) as I was totally unaware of how close the USA and history came to being changed big time !