To provide jobs during the Depression and to build the nation?s first national park, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt hired 6,500 "boys" from Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania as part of the Civilian Conservation Corp (CCC) to build Shenandoah National Park and Skyline Drive. This special features some of the "boys", many of whom lied about their age in order to get a job, as they recall their experiences in the 1930s CCC camps. Their poignant interviews reveal how they became "men" while performing the back-breaking labor, how they had the satisfaction of providing income for their families during a bleak economic time, and how they look back on their accomplishment with pride.