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Was FDR's the new deal really that huge at the time? Or is it just the way history remembers it? Did people just hop on board and help? Or was it overblown by historians? (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

My grandfather credited the new deal with not only his life, but the lives of everyone in town. His father ran the local CCC camp and it provided the majority of the local work and food. Whatever food was leftover my grandfather would walk miles delivering to people who were starving.

At his funeral nearly 80 years later he had hundreds of people show up who were descended from people who he had delivered spare food to. I never really understood how serious his stories were until hearing so many people credit him with their lives. And all of that was directly possible because of the new deal.

To this day the hiking trails they made in the area are still in use as well. So the work was also meaningful.