Peace Work

In the end of 1943, my grandfather got a job doing "peace work." He and other boys were sent to Montana to do farm work. They harvested sugar beets. In was the hardest work my grandfather said he'd ever done. He got paid for how hard he worked. In the beginning of 1944, he was moved to thin beets in Twin Falls, ID. He stayed there for 2 months before he was moved to Clearfield, UT to work in a cannery. His job at the cannery was to drop salt pellets into the cans. It was extremely boring work. He worked there for 6 months, when the cannery closed.
Another friend of his didn't want to have to go back to camp, so they went to work in a sugar factory in Layton, UT. At the sugar factory, they worked with Italian POW's. My grandfather ran the sugar sacking machine. He worked there until a little before the Christmas of 1944. He went back to camp to be with his mother, little sister, and little brother.
After Christmas, he and his friend went to work in Chicago. There, he worked for International Harvesters. He inspected tractor engines.

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