Veteran's Camp, 1941

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Veteran's Camp, 1941
Pictured above, guests of Camp Euclid's annual open house are given a tour of the veteran's barracks. Unemployed veterans who served in either the Spanish American War or World War I were eligible to join the CCC.

Roosevelt invited unemployed veterans to join the CCC in 1933 following a march on Washington by the Bonus Expeditionary Force. The occupying army of 3,000 World War I veterans demanded that bonuses previously received for wartime service be paid out prematurely; Roosevelt countered with an offer of employment through his newly created work relief program. Around 2,600 veterans from of the "Bonus Army" accepted jobs with the CCC. | Source: Courtesy of Cleveland Public Library Photograph Collection
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