11-25-2008, 09:19 PM
You're most welocme.
The story about the mines rung home as my dad once told me that they had to destroy a pile of uncovered mines. His sarge asked him if he'd ever worked with explosives. My dad said, "No" The sarge then said, "You're from the coal fields of Pennsylvania, arent you?" My dad replied that he was but that he'd never handled explosives. The sarge said, "You're from the coal region and that's close enough."
So my dad rigged the pile to detonate. He said that he was standing in the middle of a dirt road when he fired the detonater and that the concussion from the blast knocked his helmet off and tumbled him down the road, end over end. My dad commented that he was lucky to be alive. Guess so. 