THEN: At the height of President Roosevelt's WPA jobs program, able-bodied men enjoyed myriad opportunities to rebuild their country's physical and cultural infrastructure. They went to work building bridges, painting murals, performing Shakespeare, and much more. In the midst of this national revitalization was born the Department of Municipal Rocketry. Outfitted with rocket packs and stationed on rooftops in cities across the US, the brave men of the DoMR were to be the first line of defense against the imminent atomic, Communist, robotic and alien threats our nation would face in the decades to come.