minerman
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My Grandad was too young but was a bombardier in WWII. Just before he was deployed he was called back to the pits, as they needed miners more than soldiers....the pit collapsed on him, lucky white heather or what?
I'm assuming the collapse was fatal, & he was an underground miner??? We call it a "fall" or "roof fall" around here....25 years of underground experience here man, been covered up 3 times myself...The first 2 times were nothing really, but the last time in '08 I was very lucky to say the least, as it took about an hour & 1/2 for 10 guys just to get me out from under the rock & onto a stretcher so they could get me out of the mine, then to the hospital...The rock that "got me" was estimated to be about 10-12' at it's thickest part, 18' wide, & 40-50' long. The only thing that saved me was the fact that I was sitting between the continuous miner I was running, & a set of MRS' (mobile roof supports, which actually did what they were supposed to, & broke the rock where they were set against the roof properly...), actually right up next to the continuous miner. I'd just taken my coat/jacket off & stuffed it under the lids on the miner, & was on my knees opening a Mountain Dew, about to have lunch while I finished the cut I was in. I was actually about to move from the spot I was in when the fall happened. If the rock had fallen 15-20 seconds later, I wouldn't be here right now...Props to your Grandpa dude...
Back to the topic, I've been into war movies lately, "Lone Survivor" is decent, "Zero Dark Thirty" I thought was pretty good myself...I have Netflix too, so I'm gonna check out those WWI/WWII flicks, I've saw a bunch of 'em on the History Channel, dunno if it's the same thing or not, even if it is, I'll probably watch 'em anyway...