Franklin Delano Roosevelt not always pro GI?!

A curious quote appears in the current issue of DAV Magazine, May/June 2008, "Bonus Marchers & False Economies."

It seems that FDR, the Great Liberal Democrat at His Noble Best -- this was during the Great Depression, after all! -- had an issue with U.S. veterans he was not slow to address, although I'm still not sure if he was speaking as a) a candidate, or b) as an already elected president.

Anyway, here he goes:

"No one because he wore a uniform must therefore be placed in a special class of benficiaries over and above all other citizens.

"The fact of wearing a uniform does not mean that he can demand and receive from his government a benefit which no other citizen receives."