I'm Sergeant First Class, J. D. Lankford. U.S. Army, Retired. 87 years old, an EX Prisoner of War, WW II. I am the author of the book,WALK WITH ME. It is about me growing up during the great depression 1930s serving in President Franklin Delano Roosevelt Tree Army, better known as the Civilian Conservation Corp, CCC from 1939 to 1942, the CCC was under the control of the military, there were over three million of us young men in the Corps our pay was ONE DOLLAR A DAY, 30.00 A MONTH 25.00 of that went home to help feed the family, we had 5.00 a month for our personal use. when the Corps closed operation, in 1942, I started working in the officers exchange club, Fort Benning, Ga. I remained there until I went into the U.S. Army, I took basic training at Camp Walters Texas, from there back to Fort Benning for Para-troop training. It didn't take very long for me to realize jumping out of a Air Plane wasn't my thing.The Army was putting together the 106th Inf Division at Fort Jackson South