Jim, I am very familiar with that piece of history.......it also doesn't make it right. Grandad decided that the environment in the Pgh region was NOT great for raising a family and moved them to a small town known as Harmonsburg, Pa. in 1938. That is when he bought the farm. My dad grew up on it, and so did I. Dad never made alot of money, but we always had plenty to eat, had clean clothes to wear, and were warm in the winter, and to the best of my knowledge NEVER got shot at.
Dad sold the farm when he retired, and I went on starting out in an entry level job. I worked my way to where I am now, with a few years help from the US military, and a lot of hard work and crackin' the books. Everything I have now, and everything I have achieved, I did through hard work and a never dying work ethic (that I learned on the farm).
I make my own decisions. I decide where and when I do things with my career. I am able to do so because of the results I deliver............not a group of my co-workers voting something in while holding the company I work for hostage. I am getting very close to retiring, and I am very proud of what I have achieved, and I have no one to thank except my family, for the values and the work ethic they instilled in me and God for what he placed between my ears. (and maybe the US military for teaching me confidence and discipline).
Ol' Henry Clay sure didn't make many friends with his methods, but it was not my grandfather who fired those guns or made that decision. I guess that justified the imbecilic sheep (mob) shooting up the house.........that sort of "guilt by association" is EXACTLY the mindless crap that has given the unions a bad name and my perspective. I have seen WAY too many times where the MOB mentality offset any rational compromise that may have been justified by the situation at hand.
Sorry Jim, I very much respect your knowledge and posts on this board............except on this one.
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