Reply #4: I was lucky to have known many of my elderly relatives as a child. [View All]

[DCKit]

One grandfather, born in 1895, worked in the PA coal mines as a child. He died at the age of 86 of black lung disease, even though he'd only been in the mines for two or three years... until he got too big to fit into the coal seams.

I knew several of the family elders from both sides, one born in the 1870's, and they all worshiped FDR and the New Deal. Those that came along later, not so much.