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The Civilian Conservation Corps helped develop Fort Abraham Lincoln State Park by building the museum, roads, shelters, earthlodges, and blockhouses and by marking the buildings of Fort Abraham Lincoln. From 1933 to 1942, enrollees earned a dollar a day while preserving and maintaining parks and wildlife areas across the country. The organization brought hope and jobs when work was scarce, gave young men work skills, better education, and a love of family and country, and, according to this account, ninety percent of the more than three million who served were the first to enter the armed forces of the USA to fight and win World War II.
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