Thomas Dew was 14 when he lied about his age to get into the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1940. The government paid him $27 a month to plant trees and fight forest fires on the north shore of Lake Superior. He kept $5 and sent $22 home to his father’s farm in Arkansas. He was […]
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