Posted on 10/25/2022 7:24:50 AM PDT by montag813
by Jim Clayborn | RNN
Here's a touching palate cleanser to start the day.
The Kentucky Wildcats hosted their annual "blue-white scrimmage" when a father and son caught the eye of Coach John Calipari.
The father, a coal miner, sat there with his face still covered in coal dust while his son looked excited to be at the game and with his dad.
Coach Calipari snapped a photo and tweeted "My family’s American dream started in a Clarksburg, WV coal mine, so this picture hits home. From what I’ve been told, after his shift, he raced to be with his son & watch our team."
A user responded with an incredible comment the man's wife Mollie McGuire posted on Facebook. She was at the game with them:
(Excerpt) Read more at rightnewsnow.org ...
Woot! Dad power.
“What would you have me do? Give out? Give up? Give in?”
~ Eleanor of Aquitaine
“90% of Americans will always do the right thing.
Why do we let the 10% made up of losers, whiners, freaks, deviants and miscreants (and I’m NOT just talking about Congress!) rule our lives to the extent that they do?”
My tagline is something similar.
‘the man’s wife Mollie McGuire”
Oh boy.
Gotta call my great uncle Jack...
Oh that’s right, they hung him.
5.56mm
As great of a story as this guy is, he's filthy and was shedding coal dust on everyone around him. If I was sitting next to him and he was getting dust on me, I would have an issue. I don't think that's an outrageous observation to make.
I haven’t a clue, just explained why they get away with it is all..
Well said!
THIS +1
He did.
Then there’s always the one person who has to shit on the feel good story.
There should have been a Kleenex warning on this one.
This story will never get its proper due until there is a Bob Seger song added as a soundtrack.
what a great dad
And I’m sure he is EXHAUSTED but still took his kid to the game and gave mom some relief.
well done sir.
That coal miner is exactly the kind of person the Democrats want to destroy. Take away his livelihood, and put him on the dole. Then make sure he hears nothing but woke propaganda.
My dad worked literally 70 hours a week to build his business
He still found time to support my sports
It’s what most dads did in the 60s
Mollie McGuire, was once a maiden, in a little coal town they called Forbaden. She worked at a shop, a mile down the road, from the house where lived Joe Baden.
The son of a miner and Joe did follow his father's footsteps into the hollow
into the earth below the mountain
Excellent post. 👍
My great-great grandfather was a mine boss in the coal fields of central Pennsylvania. He was married to an Irish woman, and out of respect for her, the Molly McGuires warned him to quit or be dead. He quit and lived, but his successor did not.
Fox News Channel just reported this story.
always had the utmost respect for Coal Miners...total bad asses...
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