Eric Carlson World War I US Army veteran Eric Carlson joined the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/169">1932 Bonus March</a> to seek early payment of pension money promised veterans by the government. He was shot during a confrontation between marchers and <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/106">DC police</a>, who were trying to evict the marchers from their campsites. Another marcher, <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/407">William Hushka</a> was also shot and died instantly; Carlson died from his wounds  within a week of being shot, on the same day that Hushka was buried with military honors at Arlington National Cemetery. Carlson was also buried at Arlington. <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Eric+Carlson">Eric Carlson</a> Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. <a href="http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/96500547/">View original photograph</a>. <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=38&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=1920-1949">1920-1949</a>