<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I" id="mw9A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="World War I">World War I</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veteran" id="mw9Q" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Veteran">veterans</a> begin to assemble in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,_D.C." id="mw9g" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Washington, D.C.">Washington, D.C.</a>, in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonus_Army" id="mw9w" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Bonus Army">Bonus Army</a> to request cash bonuses promised to them to be paid in 1945.