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COAL MINER SOLDIERS
On October 31, 1942, in the heat of the Second World War, Winston Churchill spoke to the dirty, grimy, unheralded and undistinguished coal miners: “Some day when children ask, ‘What did you do to win this inheritance for us, and to make our name so respected among men?’ one will say, ‘I was a fighter pilot;’ another will say ‘I was in the Submarine Service;’ another will say ‘None of you could have lived without the convoys and the merchant seamen;’ and you in turn will say with equal pride and equal right, ‘We cut the coal.’ Yes, they cut the coal to fuel the ships to transport the boys to win the war!”