Evo....that's a lovely post. My father too was a South Wales miner, from the age of 14, and down there during the war. He died of lung disease in 2000. I have a video tape of him describing what it was like down the pit, and the risks they took every working day. Every time I watch it,it brings me to tears. How they did that every day I just do not know. As you say, men like them made this country,so here's to your Father, and mine, and all the others like them. Let's not let them down...let's vote to get out of that stranglehold that the EU has on this country, and make this country great again. 

As for getting old, my father earned every penny of his measly pension, and when the LABOUR government decided they would compensate miners for their loss of health due to their working conditions, he received, for almost fifty years scrabbling underground, just barely enough to pay for a funeral. Meanwhile,the lawyers and solicitors who dealt with miners claims got nice and fat by stretching the claims out for years and years. That's LABOUR for you, supposed to be for the working man. 

I am getting on now, and a pensioner, which I am not going to apologise for. I worked hard for my pension. I am very lucky to have reached the age I am, and I enjoy life, in my little town, the same one I was born in. The town is dying slowly, like a lot of others in the UK. Every now and then we get thrown a few scraps of EU money, along with strict instructions on how it has to be spent. The last hand out , all £30.000 of it , was spent on 'street furniture'....can you believe that? 

So yes...I am going to honour my parents and their generation, and vote to leave that dying corrupt organisation, as I think you will too Evo.