It took a class of 1st graders to teach me someting about the most dangerous woman in America!!!

[getting old in mke]

8. "We count it death to falter, not to die."

I had a major spiritual experience once.

I had finished a week's consulting in Peoria and, instead of heading straight back to Milwaukee drove down to St. Louis to visit friends whose daughter was undergoing some major and painful surgery.

I'd stopped Friday night somewhere around Springfield and was taking the last part Saturday morning. I found myself pulling off for a break at an exit for a town I'd never heard of and drove around a bit, looking for a park or some place to stretch my legs. I wandered and found what looked like an old cemetery, and the sign said "Union Miners Cemetery" and I thought "okay." I saw an obelisk near the back, so parked and walked back.

And it turned out to be Mother Jones's grave. And a memorial to the miners who died in labor wrangles in the first few decades of the 20th century, named and dated with the mines/labor actions they were killed at.

I don't think that the skies opened and the sun shone down from a previously troubled sky, but it sure felt like it!

http://www.minewar.org/?p=141

http://www.illinoislaborhistory.org/union-miners-cemetary.html