"Thanks to the eldest son, Dr. Dennis F. Augustine (retired), for honoring his late Dad by writing about his contributions to his country during a time of America’s upheaval leading up to the Great Depression and the Second World War and, for serving his community in his later years. Please note that Frank Augustine was born January 5, 1917, not 2017 (Apologies for the misprint)."
Dad was one of tens of thousands of young men to serve in Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), the brain-child of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal in the 1930s, a work relief program that contributed to the renewal and beautification of the country. Dad also served as a cook in Company 1296 Blackfoot, Idaho, and Company 3201, Gibbon, Oregon, 1940. When he died at the end of 2017, I had intended to write a memorial tribute in his honor, but the mourning of his passing, and personal family issues, made it virtually impossible. When I finally had the time to submit a posthumous story to be published, the COVID-19 pandemic crisis delayed its’ publication even further. When I asked Joan Sharpe, president and editor of the CCC Legacy Journal if it was too late, she kindly responded: “It’s never too late to honor a CCC boy,” and my tribute to dad was finally published in the April-October 2020 issue.
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