Dear Editor,
I wish to thank the editor of this newspaper who published a few
months ago my request for responses from those still living
veterans who served in the CCC’S (Civilian Conservation Corps),
during the years of the Great Depression (1930-1941).
Dear Editor,
I wish to thank the editor of this newspaper who published a few months ago my request for responses from those still living veterans who served in the CCC’S (Civilian Conservation Corps), during the years of the Great Depression (1930-1941).
I had requested their nostalgic memories of their experiences during their enlistment: the good, the bad, the ugly; where they worked; the tools they used; their life under Army supervision; how their $1 a day pay aided their families; also how many millions of the boys took classes for a trade which furthered their career later in life; and finally how training under Army regulations primed them for quick promotions in their military service in World War II a few years later.
From all the responses that I received, I found all considered that their time spent in the CCC’S was one of their greatest periods of like – all revered their service and would do it all over again.
I have just completed from their responses my documentary, a 160 page book titled “The Forgotten Boys of The Civilian Conservation Corps who Enlisted As Boys and Were Discharged Men.”
Paul E. Jones, Ridgeway, IL
