We Can Take It - the Civilian Conservation Corps for GREEN JOBS
CIVILAIN CONSERVATION CORPS ALUMNI VIDEOS (Memories and Poetry)


ROUND AND ROUND 
6:00 AM Rising Bugle 
6:15-7:00 Breakfast, followed by sick call
7:15 Police camp and draw tools 
7:30 Go to work
11:15 Return from work
12:00 Dinner 
1:00 Sick call 
1:15 Police camp 
1:30 Draw tools 
1:45 Go to work 
4:45 Return from work 
6: 00 Supper followed by the study program
10:00 Bed and lights out.

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Success is not the key to happiness.
Happiness is the key to success.
If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

                                                                                 Albert Schweitzer


Another day, another dollar--

A million days and I’ll be a millionaire!

                                         

                                                               Popular saying by the CCC boys

 
 
What America and these men endured in the 1930's

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Run on Union Bank in New York in 1929

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The Dust Bowl in Oklahoma, 1934.

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Soup Line in Chicago

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Homeless man sleeping on a New York City pier

Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother depicts destitute
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pea pickers in California, centering on F Owens Thompson, a mother of seven children, age 32

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Homeless in San Francisco, 1936. Dorothea Lange

Civilian Conservation Corps Alumni Interview with Mr. Walter Atwood

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Digital ID: 1260074. Civilian Conservation Corps boys putting up a fence, Greene County, Georgia, Ma

November 3, 2007, Video Interviews of five Alumni at the Annual Florida CCC Alumni Reunion in Highlands Hammock State Park in Sebring,Florida. Interviewed by Jay Alexander and Videographer - Mark Skogman 

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CCC enrollees using picks and shovels, Maryland, 1933

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Compressor and jackhammer for drilling rock preparatory to shooting explosives, Lassen National Fore

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CCC crew member loading a hole under a stump with dynamite, Lolo National Forest (Montana)

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CCC telephone repairman Davis, Monongahela National Forest, West Virginia

CCC Alumni Interview - Mr Jacob ShadDone

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Worth It
By Doc Towne
Co. 615, Estacada,OR 

My hands are sore an’ blistered,boys,
My bones are full of aches;
My elbow joints, they make a noise
Like an ungreased windmill makes.

How come? I been a choppin’ trees
A-hewin logs and such;
The kind of work that pleases
A C.C.C.very much.

I’ve got as bunk and windows, too,
With one that’s set just right;
For us to watch the moon rise
When work is through the night.

That ax has sure wore out my hand,
But, boys, my heart ain’t sore;
I’ll stand her there to meet me
Just out the bunkhouse door.  
                                          
But I’ve been just the same,
An’ up Clackamas Valley Draw;
Now stands Company 615
Best of them all.
 
Happy Days
September 22, 1934

WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN
(To Mr. Roosevelt)
By Raymond Kraus
Co. 1232, Olympia, W
A pauper’s life we may have led.
And we died revolting for our bread;
We might have shed each other’s blood.
And we died face done in the mud.
But all because we have this man,
Whose only words are there: “I can!”
Our nation shall evolve on high,
And we shall have a brighter sky.
He gave to us the chance to say,
I’ve earned my bread and keep today,
The chance to smile, to toil, to sweat,
This damn depression this forget.
                                                                   
Happy Days, November 3, 1934 (National
newspaper of the CCC, Washington, D.C.) 

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Enrollees singing while waiting at train station in Missoula, MT

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CCC building wall at Grand Canyon National Park

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Literacy was taught and tested by writing a letter home!

KETC | Living St. Louis | Civilian Conservation Corps

                  S H O V E L

S – is for the spuds we got for breakfast.
H – is for the home we seldom see.
O – is for the onions that they feed us.
V -  is for this verse composed by me.
E -  is for the end of my enlistment.
L – is for the last they’ll see of me.
Put them all together the spell SHOVEL
The emblem of the CCC.

Fort Lewis CCC songbook, 1934

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CCC enrollees using picks and shovels, Maryland, 1933

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Group photograph of the Veteran CCC Camp at Wolfcreek, Oregon

ROUND AND ROUND 
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6:00 AM Rising Bugle 
6:15-7:00 Breakfast, followed by sick call
7:15 Police camp and draw tools 
7:30 Go to work
11:15 Return from work
12:00 Dinner 
1:00 Sick call 
1:15 Police camp 
1:30 Draw tools 
1:45 Go to work 
4:45 Return from work 
6: 00 Supper followed by the study program
10:00 Bed and lights out.