I'm sure everybody gets your drift, Alex.

Larry: Your father had no other choice? He HAD to go down in that mine? There were no roads leading out of your hometown to towns where jobs might be available that did not involve going down into that dirty old coal mine? Maybe he should have come out west and become a cowboy! Outdoor life, healthy, and the only danger from consumption was swallowing too much Bull Durham smoke.

Just curious.

DougR