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In 1941, sixty men lined up to get a job building Camp Barkley in Abilene, Texas. The faces of the ones in the front show the joy they felt at getting hired, some in the middle seem worried the jobs will be filled before they get to the front, and there in the back a giant of a man towers over the others ...