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:
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Nice to see Calipari recognize the coal miner.
A perfect description of the post and of the intent of the poster. Well done!
“ the man’s wife Mollie McGuire ”
Interesting name for the wife of a coal miner.
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It is indeed and she carries it proudly.
sniff....so TRUE!
Miners are a different breed. My husband comes from a long line of WV coal miners. They are tough, independent minded, very much believe in God, family and country.
And they say what they believe and believe what they say.
His father was a red neck, one of the original miners who held the line in Appalachia. He died in the early 1950s.
Plus......he must have kissed his son because the kid had smudges on his forehead and cheek!
Indeed. Thank you.
In his defense, I’d say it’s hard to get all that off in a hurry. And I’d much rather sit next to this family than someone bathed in cologne or perfume with a snotty attitude.
Ok, that was funny.
I doubt that her name was Molly McGuire, maybe a nom de plume. Most people today wouldn’t know what a Molly McGuire was.
I loved the scene in the movie Chernobyl where the commie leader shows up at the coal mine and tries to tell the miners that they work for him now. Tough men for sure.
The backbone of America! Smiling through tears.
Backs will break and muscles ache,
Down there there’s no time to dream,
Of fields and farms, of womans arms,
Just dig that bloody seam,
Though they drain their bodies underground,
Who’ll dare to push them around
The Molly McGuires - by the Dubliners
The scabs and company thugs killed my great uncle and dynamited my grandpa’s house. They put my uncle in jail and ran my father out of town. In turn my kin burned their tipples and derailed their trains. It was a vicious era. No one won
Don’t be so sure about. Many Irish are still very passionate and sentimental about what happened in that era - especially in coal country. I wouldn’t be surprised if lots of McGuire’s named their daughters Molly or Mollie.
This is the kind of guy that keeps America rolling, not the colored hair freaks visiting Biden, trump should have all these guys at the white house, a blue collar group visit every week at WH
Love is very powerful
Hate is very vocal
Brings a tear to your eye for sure. Imagine the hoops he might have had to jump thru to get there on time. But he got it done because taking his son to the game was most important.
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I was NOT putting him down!! GOD Bless him and his family!
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