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Sixty-five years ago, on March 1, 1961, President John F. Kennedy issued Executive Order 10924, establishing the Peace Corps, a volunteer service organization through which young Americans would work abroad for a period of two years with governments, schools, nonprofits and non-governmental organizations in critical areas such as education, youth development, community health, business, information…

There was nothing much happening in Jerome and Benno Leuer’s yard in Hamel, Minn. on August 11, 1948. It was noontime in the thick of summer and the boys, 10 and 8, were idly playing when, as they later described it, something overhead caught their eyes. They looked up and their jaws dropped.