| Clifford Caplinger explains why he joined the Civilian
Conservation Corps.
"Well, I growed up a poor boy. When they called me, I was nineteen. When they called me for the CCs, I was plowin' corn for fifty cents a day. So you know how poor I was......My dad died when I was---he died in '29---I was fifteen, I guess....So I went to CC to have something for my mother. You know they sent twenty-five dollars to her. I got five."
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