I watched an interesting show on PBS a week or so back about the Civil Conservation Corps. It was part of Roosevelt's New Deal.

One of the living participants talked about how it essentially gave hundreds of thousands of American men a jumpstart on military structured life.

When I hear the phrase "greatest generation", this is the type of thing that comes to mind for me. These men were working in hard labor camps, doing jobs created by the government, required to send 5/6 of their earnings back home, and they were simply happy to have 3 meals per day. They rebuilt America to put food on their family's table, and in doing so unknowingly prepared themselves for WW2.

It's not by chance that these men had the grit to do the things they did. They were brought up in hard times, and no doubt had more respect for the things they fought for than us later generations can even guess at.

Well said, sir.

Bump

Should have never got involved.

/Ron Paul

LMAO

edit: meh, the pic of Charles Durning isn't showing....

Interesting.
A friend of mine owns land with a test pit dug by this same program. He found out by searching through the local city library’s archives and actually came up with pictures of the work camp on what is now his land. These test pits were dug all over this area and are a big part of why both Monarch and Ash Grove Cement have plants here.

(sniff)

^

Should change the OP to 68 years.

A memorial day in its own right. RIP to the lives sacrificed that day.

For the past year, I have been writing something about the post-war experience, and the amount of research I did on WWII has left me...adjusted.

I don't know, maybe there is nothing noble about dying. There sure as hell isn't anything noble about killing. But there is immeasurable nobility in doing what needs to be done, when no one else is willing or can.

I think we carry a significant amount of pride and devotion to that war, because it was the last war that you could look at and say, "There! There is the villain! And we MUST be here. We must fight. It isn't a choice, or a strategy, or based on ulterior motives." No war since has carried such clear justifications and necessity.

And yet, even then, the horror of it all isn't diminished one damn bit.

You writing a book?

Pipe dream fool. Don't be dumb.

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