We all come back, or we all die together

Canada Free Press ^ | Sunday, January 8, 2006 | John Burtis

[Anne_Conn]

It is often said that the really tough guys are the ones who get up and go to work every day. Without doubt, it is a group of really tough guys who go down into the mines everyday, out of sight and out of mind to too many of us, we who live in the day light and only think of them when something goes haywire, underground, in a faraway state.

[Sabatier]

I read that the older miners shared their oxygen with the youngest guy, the one who survived. What courage.

[Restorer]

In 1798, when confronted by another batch of tyrannical pirates ravaging our shipping interests and looting our ships, Representative Robert Goodloe Harper rose in Congress to denounce their activities, crying, "Millions for defense, not one cent for tribute."

These weren't exactly pirates, except metaphorically. What Harpet was protesting was seizure of US ships by the French government.

[BluH2o]

I read that the older miners shared their oxygen with the youngest guy, the one who survived. What courage.

That's conjecture; no one knows for sure until the lone survivor recovers to the point he can be interviewed. It's entirely possible he will have no recollection of the ordeal.