On Wed, 19 May 2021 07:51:52 -0400, Gary > wrote:

>On 5/18/2021 12:47 PM, dsi1 wrote:
>> On Tuesday, May 18, 2021 at 2:50:24 AM UTC-10, Gary wrote:
>>> Dsi1 wrote:
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>>>> If it was a choice between working deep underground or ripping the
>>>> earth apart, I'd say rip away. No man should have to work deep in
>>>> the earth .
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>>> My one grandfather and his father did that for their entire working
>>> life...about 50 years each.
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>>> I got to see the inside of that mine once. Dark, damp and a tunnel going
>>> way underground that mountain.
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>>> That would be a scary place to work all your life.
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>> It sure sounds like a shitty way to live. I can't say if it's better to be a miner or a slave. Working underground sounds like a terrifying notion.
>> My father-in-law worked in a coal mine when he was young. He didn't like it so he learned to dig for data with computers instead. A friend's dad became a rocket scientist to get away from mining. They certainly done better than their fellow coal miners.
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>At least the coal mining (in my family) ended with my grandfather. He
>had 4 sons and none of them ever worked in that mine. They all fought in
>WW2 when young. All survived that then moved away to get better jobs.
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>Even his 5 daughters married men who never worked in a coal mine.
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Ask them, theyre here. "You can stop saying that now. Thank you."