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Civilian Conservation Corps
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Flags of Our Fathers
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He ended up in a similar brainstorm of the President's, one that perfectly suited his energy and developing physique: the Civilian Conservation Corps.†
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The CCC was designed to wean young men off street corners by getting them involved in shoring up the nation's natural environment.†
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Through the 1930's, youthful CCC workers planted millions of trees across America; they released nearly a billion game fish into the country's rivers and lakes; they built wildlife shelters, created camping grounds, and dug thousands of miles of canals for irrigation and transportation.†
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But the CCC had a greater function—one that did not fully reveal itself until America went to war.†
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Administered by the Army, the CCC introduced its recruits to camp life, to military discipline, to physical fitness, and to a sense of loyalty to comrades and to a cause.†
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The former French horn player, scholar, and good Catholic boy disappeared into the CCC in 1937 weighing 140 pounds and reemerged two years later a strapping 180, tanned and handsome.†
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He would have stayed on happily in the CCC, swinging an ax and hauling concrete under the great American sun, but the government denied his application for an extension: His father had by then found work a couple of days a week, and the family was no longer technically destitute.†
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Definitions:

(1) (Civilian Conservation Corps)
Depression era relief measure established to employ young unmarried men in projects such as planning trees, and maintaining forest roads and trails (1933-1942)
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)