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Perspective: Should the CCC be revived?

Walsh County Record (Grafton) Editor W. Todd Morgan reminded us last week that June observed the 80th anniversary of the closing of the Civilian Conservation Corps, an organization of young men 18-20 that did scores of public projects in North Dakota. And what the CCC didn’t do, the Works Progress Administration did.

While the CCC consisted of young men in a semi-military setting, commanded in bar...

 
 
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