My grandfather worked in the aleganey forge running the tempering ovens for very large metal forgings. Raised a family,4 kids, kept the farm, retired and lived

My grandfather worked in the aleganey forge running the tempering ovens for very large metal forgings. Raised a family,4 kids, kept the farm, retired and lived 30years more, and there was some money left for everybody. He bemoned the selling off?, out, of american manufacturing that began in the 1970's. He was the kind of american who was comfortably unaware of the rest of the world, perhaps ever so slightly embarassed by his unworldlyness, only having a high school educatiin, but also completly untroubled by anything, anywhere, ever bieng a real concern.He had worked on the 16" guns that are still to be seen on the decks of WWII battleships. But instead of an enduring world peace and prosperity he got to see the errosion of the american dream, and the desruction of americas strength from within. As a further illustration, granpa and grandma, used to go visit "uncle kieth"in NYC, St.marks place, 6th st, between 2nd and 3rd ave, manhatten, in the 70's ,80's and early 90's, stayed in the truck camper, parked on the street,an unspoken,unwritten imunity convieghed by that little bit of mud in the fender wells.