Let me paint you a picture of what life is like for thousands of Americans, including my family and I in 1934. More than 12 million people were unemployed, over 5 thousand banks had closed. When the banks closed they took with them all of the money that people had trusted the bank to hold for them8 (43). All of this was caused by just the Depression. On top of all of this poverty; the Dust Bowl arrived. Theodore Roosevelt had a plan to employ the American people. His plan was to help get America through the Depression and the Dust Bowl was the CCC. The CCC stood for Civilian Conservation Corps. This was a plan to help people like me find work. The CCC started projects in National Parks, and other public places. They then paid us to work there, cleaning and maintaining the Park.3 After wrestling with the decision whether to abandon my family to work, or to stay wi

By now it was 7:00 and time for dinner. We ate plain food, like corn bread and been soup, which was purchased from a local farm.3 After eating the food, (boy it tasted good to have a real meal again. -usually my daughter ate half of mine) we went and settled in to our beds, and got a good nights rest, because tomorrow we found out what agency we worked for. There were many agencies to be apart of in the CCC. There was the national forest, state forest and General Land Office camps. These camps worked on reforestation, firefighting, insect and disease control, and build administrative structures.1 The National Park Service and the state park camps, who tended to build trails, a few roads, and lodges.1 The last agency in the CCC was Military Camps. No one was quite sure what was going to be done with the people the happened to be assigned to this agency, but all I knew was that I did not want to be apart of it.1 I do not want to be a part of the Military, I think that war is bad, and I never want to be a part of it.

I soon received a letter from my wife and daughter that they had moved to a small town outside of San Diego called Jackson. I packed up my few belongings and caught the first train out of Ohio to California. I arrived in San Diego On September 19th, 1934 and went and saw the house that my family had chosen.

7) Freedman, Russle Franklin Delano Roosevelt Houghton Mifflin Company ã1990 (87-88)

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