The Bonus Army: An American Epic is on PBS tonight. I want to see this one. Seems fitting for Memorial Day.

Looking up blog items on Technorati about Memorial Day in Portland, I ran across a post by Andrew Dickson, a performance artist, who calls Portland and LA his home towns. He does this act about book being an eBay Power Seller. Ironically, I talked to Andrew the other night about a gig he is doing here in Portland next month. More on that another time…

Anyway, his Dad wrote the book that PBS used as the basis for its documentary.

Frm AC Dickson: eBay Power Seller:

In addition to reforming Luddites, my father is author of dozens upon dozens of books, the latest being The Bonus Army: An American Epic, co-written with Tom Allen. Allow me to quote from one of its many five-star reviews on Amazon:

Paul Dickson and Thomas B. Allen set out to chronicle an event, but wound up giving us a look at how politicians deal with the pesky problem of what to do with returning veterans. One of the most shocking aspects of The Bonus Army is how quickly the same men who cheered from the grandstands as these soldiers went off to war in 1918 now wanted them washed away and forgotten.

As an American war veteran I am grateful to Dickson and Allen for writing this book. It should be read by every returning Global War On Terror (GWOT) vet. Like freedom itself, when it comes to holding government to their promises after the trumpets fade, you only get what you are willing to fight for.

The documentary will include archival footage, photographs and interviews with the veterans–a must-see on this Memorial Day weekend.

Happy Memorial Day.