The Veterans of Future Wars (deliberately abbreviated VFW, to the annoyance of the Veterans of Foreign Wars) was a campus-based antiwar protest movement of the 1930s. Launched at Princeton University in 1936, it had chapters on more than fifty campuses within a year. Antiwar students drew attention to their pacifist stand by demanding a cash "bonus" similar to the bonus provided by Congress to World War I veterans — for their participation in future wars. Like the Bonus Marchers.....
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