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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: The March of TIME: Veterans of Future Wars [Watch (HLS stream): The March of TIME: Veterans of Future Wars](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/9IwL2ONr.m3u8) (2:58)  _Published 2009-08-17. In this 1936 March of TIME newsreel, a group of Princeton students lobbies for payment for future war service_ --- Jul 27, 2023 1:12 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [The March of TIME: Fascist Italy in the Islamic World](/video/QoPsgblw/) ### The March of TIME: Fascist Italy in the Islamic World [The March of TIME: Nazi Germany](/video/bw0aXLGy/) ### The March of TIME: Nazi Germany [The March of TIME: FDR in 1936](/video/doRv0MQt/) ### The March of TIME: FDR in 1936 --- ## Transcript -[ unk ] before they start this [ unk ] meetings all over again. But [ unk ]. Will you [ unk ]? Like it or not, we'll all go. [ unk ] I get no [ unk ] in speeches, and when we come back if we do come back, we'll ask Congress for a bonus. >> Suppose we don't come back, why shouldn't we get our bonus now? >> Sure. Cash in advance. >> Why not? Take it to the [ unk ] >> Wait a minute. I have an idea. Listen, give me a pencil. >> That evening, the campus newspaper receives a communication; next day, the manifesto of the Veterans of Future Wars. War, the manifesto claims, is being inevitable within the next 30 years. The future war veterans demand a bonus for every male citizen between the ages of 18 and 36, payable immediately, as an advance on future war service. For the manifesto [ unk ] others comes an immediate unexpected response. Undergraduates pack into a mass meeting, roar their approval of the Veterans of Future Wars, give the official salute, the outstretched, itching palm the Washington go- to of this young Princetonian. And Congress meets a new species of lobbyist. >> We want to register as lobbyists of the Veterans of Future Wars. >> The Veterans of Future Wars? Are you serious? >> Yes, sir, we certainly are. >> Sharply to their bait rises Congressman Fuller of Arkansas. >> There is no danger of any of these so- called veterans ever volunteering to defend America. Their actions clearly show that they are yellow. >> The idea catches. Students in 204 colleges joined in the Princeton parody, as the manifesto of the Veterans of Future Wars spreads across the land; a sardonic acceptance of the inevitability of war and its consequences, written by the war babies of the last war. >> Whereas it is inevitable that this country will be engaged in war within the next 30 years, we, the Veterans of Future Wars, demand a bonus of $ 1, 000 now. We are demanding immediate cash payment with advance interest because, otherwise, many who will be killed or wounded in the next war will not get the full benefit of their country's gratitude. >> Time marches on. ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"The March of TIME: Veterans of Future Wars","description":"In this 1936 March of TIME newsreel, a group of Princeton students lobbies for payment for future war service","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/9IwL2ONr/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2009-08-17T16:56:01.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/9IwL2ONr.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/video/9IwL2ONr/","duration":"PT2M58S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/video/9IwL2ONr/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}} ```