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May 23, 2011

Doing Our Civic Duty

A History Behind the YMCA’s Contributions to the USO In the months before the United States entered WWII, the United Service Organization (USO) was formed by six voluntary civilian agencies, one of which was the YMCA. At the time, the YMCA was looking for ways to help the increasing numbers of young men who were ...more

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