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"Boys In Green"  by  John McCutcheon from his album "Untold"

Where are those Boys in Green?
 
Today, many single young men and women from age 18 to 25
are saddled with high unemployment rates.  
Extreme cases of unemployment rates soar over 70% for young
Native Americans and territorial citizens.

 
Many people are out of work just have given up hope of ever finding a job. 
  Many are working fewer hours than they want and need. More than one in six workers are underemployed or
unemployed and that directly links us todaywith our forebears in the Great Depression.
 
Why re-invent the wheel?
 The U.S. Government should dust off and update the CCC template of this rugged, shovel ready program
that will provide straight-forward and accountable job training work program to help
to save our environment for more BANG FOR OUR BUCK !
 

WE CAN TAKE IT! 

 
Dire Warning for our Nation ...

The dedication of  "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson is:

" To Albert Sweitzer who said 'Man has lost the capcity to foresee

 and to forstall.  He will end up by destroying the earth.' "

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A lucky Polar Bear on drift ice.

"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and
lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
                                                                                             - Abraham Lincoln

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Oil spill beach cleanup. Audubon

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Mountaintop removal site at Kayford Mountain in West Virginia. Jeff Gentner/Associated Press


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
America and the World is in distress! 
In the 20th Century environment there was flooding and erosion from the Dust Bowl.
Today, we face global - rapid climate change  and a world-wide deterioration of the environment.
 
It has been popular group-think of late to say "government programs are never the answer."
 
But after a decade of political momentum on the side of demonizing the government and casting
our economic fortunes solely with the private sector, why are so many people now suffering? 




Knee-jerk platitudes and ideological clichés do not help build a country or put food on the table.

 
The Civilian Conservation Corps, in fact, did just that.
 
The American people must to urge our government to reactivate and update the template of the
CCC program which can put millions of work boots on the ground over the generations in
performing and training in real green jobs as they do actual work on shovel ready public works projects.
 
Today the drop out rate in our middle and high schools are higher than ever and when they reach adulthood
they are facing unemployment and minimal opportunity.  Now all levels of government in all 50 states,
US Territories, down to most municipal governments are budget cutting and laying off staff from teachers
to police and eliminating social programs as well as youth conservation corps programs.  They are forced
to ignore backlogs of critical ecosystem and infrastructure repair that are deperately needed on our
public lands, shores and waterways.  Listen to the fact-filled commentary by Jim Hightower on the state
of our infrastucture from the American Society of Civil Engineers.
 
It has been popular group-think of late to say "government programs are never the answer."
But after a decade of political momentum on the side of demonizing the government and casting
our economic fortunes solely with the private sector, why are so many people now suffering?  

Knee-jerk platitudes and ideological clichés do not help build a country or put food on the table.
The Civilian Conservation Corps, in fact, did just that.

The survival of the planet and humanity is close to the tipping point...and where are those Boys in Green?

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense
than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.     
                                                                                                                                                               Dr Martin Luther King, Jr

 
 
CCC structures that stand today...

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Deception Pass Bridge in Washington State

 

The Deception Pass Bridge is a two-lane bridge connecting Whidbey Island to Fidalgo Island
in Washington.  It was a Public Works Administration project built by young workers
from the Civilian Conservation Corps.  Completion of the bridge allowed the United States Navy to build
Naval Air Station Whidbey Island and helped Oak Harbor, Washington flourish.
The bridge is a commonly-photographed landmark of the Puget Sound region.
 
 

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CCC structure in Torreya State Park, Florida that serves as the ranger station , 2009

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Inside the Torreya State Park ranger station, 2009.

     

                                             IMPORTANT NOTICE:

CCC Alumni are living treasures.  We need to record and to video them
for future generations.  PLEASE find them and interview them for
3-10 minutes and tranfer the recording YOUTUBE and title your interview
as (Civilian Conservation Corps Alumni Interview with (Mr. their name). 
Begin with asking their name, age, original hometown, where they are living today, where they signed up, their dates of service,  assignments and their locations and what kind of tools they used and the type of work they did and what they got most out of their experience.  End with the question, "Should the we bring back the CCC?"

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

STUMPS

I hope that I shall never see,

A Stump outside the CCC;

A Stump whose wiry roots are found,

Deep in the earth's tenacious ground.

A stump at which I slave away,

All during a torride summer day,

Stumps are dug by guys like me

And others in the CCC.

 

D.E.M., Arcardia, RI

 

 

 

If you doubt that $25 a month could make that big a difference in a family’s life,

here are a few prices at Boise Safeway stores during the Great Depression.

Æ By the pound, picnic ham was 16 cents.

Æ Pork sausage, 25 cents a pound.

Æ Rib steak, 21 cents a pound.

Æ Pork and beans were 5 cents a can.

Æ Airway Coffee was 15 cents a pound.

A dollar a day was more than welcome in those times and could at least keep food on the table.



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CCC Enrollee Oath
 
(Upon entering the CCC, each enrollee subscribed to the following oath. It is a contract between the

enrollee and the U.S. Government, and should be lived up to in each respect.)
I, _______________ , do solemnly swear that the information given above as to my status is correct.
I agree to remain in the Civilian Conservation Corps for the period terminating at the discretion of the
United States between ..................... unless sooner released by proper authority, and that I will obey
those in authority and observe all the rules and regulations thereof to the best of my ability and will
accept such allowances as may be provided pursuant to law and regulations promulgated pursuant
thereto.  I understand and agree that any injury received or disease contracted by me while a member
of the Civilian Conservation Corps cannot be made the basis against the government, except such as I
may be entitled to the Act of September 7, 1916(39 Stat. 724) ( an act to provide compensation for
employees of the United States suffering injuries while in the performance of their duties and for other
purposes), and that I shall not be entitled to any allowances upon release from camp, except
transportation in kind to the place at which I was accepted for enrollment.  I understand further that
any articles issued to me by the United States Government for the use while a member of the
Civilian Conservation Corps are, and remain, property of the United States Government and that willful
destruction, loss, sale, or disposal of such property renders me financially responsible for the cost
thereof and liable to trial in the civil courts.  I understand further that any infraction of the rules or
regulations of the Civilian Conservation Corps renders me liable to the expulsion therefrom.  
So help me God.

 

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CCC Camp Information (1933-1942)


Average number of camps operating in U.S. per year: 1,643


Total number of different camps: 4,500


Highest elevation of CCC camp: 9,200 feet above sea level in Colorado


Lowest elevation of CCC camp: 270 feet below sea level, Death Valley, Calif.


Camp locations: Every state in the Union, plus Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands


Total cost: $3,000,000,000


Approximate cost per enrollee per year for food, clothing, overhead, and allotments to dependents: $1,000


Allotments to Dependents: $662,895,000


Number of people directly benefited from enrollees’ checks: 12 million to 15 million


Value of Work in 1942 Dollars: $2 billion


Miles of roads built: 125,000


Miles of telephone lines strung: 89,000


Miles of foot trails built: 13,100


Farmlands benefited from erosion control projects: 40 million acres


Stream and lake bank protection: 154 million square yards


Range revegetation: 814,000 acres


Firefighting days: More than 8 million


Number of enrollees who died fighting Fires: 79


Overall death rate: 2.25 per thousand


State parks developed: 800


Public campground development: 52,000 acres

The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.
                                                                      - environmental writer and author - Edward Abbey (1927-1989)

The dedication of  "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson is:

" To Albert Sweitzer who said 'Man has lost the capcity to foresee

 and to forstall.  He will end up by destroying the earth.' "