I spent six months in the CCC when I was 15 years old and loved the CCC. I would like to see the service offered to young men and women. First I was a Yong boy living on a small cotton farm, this was a depression colony where the federal government bought 16 thousand acres of cut over timber land that flooded. They cut ditches and drained the water off, built roads and bridges, and 500 farms with 3-4-5 room houses, the people that was selected had to clear the trees and cultivate the new ground, I quit school and helped with the farm work just like a MAN. No money and now way to make any. We raised our own food. I was glad to enlist in the CCC and make $30 dollars a month with $10 paid to me and $12 dollers sent to my parents and $8 dollars sent to me when i was discharged. What I am saying is where are you going to find young men who have worked, Cutting trees, Sowing firewood, chopping cotton and corn and gathering the crop in the fall. When I was 9 years old my dad came down sick and I had to lay by the crop,(Plow through the middle in the HOT LATE SUMMER.) The CCC you got Money Good food Nice clothes) They were Army Clothes. And learn a trade, Finish school. It is a great place but you dont have Dad and Mother with you. THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING ME TO POST MY THOUGHTS.
Revisiting the national-service proposition
I spent six months in the CCC when I was 15 years old and loved the CCC. I would like to see the service offered to young men and women.
First I was a Yong boy living on a small cotton farm, this was a depression colony where the federal government bought 16 thousand acres of cut over timber land that flooded. They cut ditches and drained the water off, built roads and bridges, and 500 farms with 3-4-5 room houses, the people that was selected had to clear the trees and cultivate the new ground, I quit school and helped with the farm work just like a MAN.
No money and now way to make any. We raised our own food.
I was glad to enlist in the CCC and make $30 dollars a month with $10 paid to me and $12 dollers sent to my parents and $8 dollars sent to me when i was discharged.
What I am saying is where are you going to find young men who have worked, Cutting trees, Sowing firewood, chopping cotton and corn and gathering the crop in the fall. When I was 9 years old my dad came down sick and I had to lay by the crop,(Plow through the middle in the HOT LATE SUMMER.)
The CCC you got Money Good food Nice clothes) They were Army Clothes. And learn a trade, Finish school. It is a great place but you dont have Dad and Mother with you.
THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING ME TO POST MY THOUGHTS.
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