Glaucoma is a group of eye diseases causing optic nerve damage. The optic nerve carries images from the retina, which is the specialized light sensing tissue, to the brain so we can see. In glaucoma, eye pressure plays a role in damaging the delicate nerve fibers of the optic nerve.
CCC life. The slogan of the Civilian Conservation Corps is 'We can take it!' Building strong bodies is a major CCC objective. More than half the enrollees who entered CCC the last year were seventeen years of age. Work, calisthenics, marching drill, good food, and medical care feature the CCC health program..
We still had a bit of time before we needed to hit the road back home, so we decided to check out the CCC museum in the State Park before we left. The Civilian Conservation Corps, or CCC, was a New Deal program enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. It was a public works relief program that operated from 1933 to 1942 and put 3 million unemployed, unmarried men to work on unskilled manual labor jobs related to the conservation and development of natural resources in rural lands owned by federal, state and local governments.