I thank you Ann for your post in your blog on Msn, related to the shut down of mines and steel casting industries in Longwy, north east of France !
My grand-parents were miners there, in a small vilage called Crusnes.. I deeply regret the closing down of the mines which made a living for many people ! My grand-parents had left Italy and came to live there.
I thank you on behalf of them and those who drilled the earth and cast iron for us to live !
Never desper ! History is not at end... we are always short-sighted thinking that future is the same as present and even worse ... !
Future is up to you, young people, to built it up... to build a humane and real world ...
God will help you.