And yet, how many of those people voted for the people who are forcing the closures by their policies?
Well, West Virginia has been voting Republican lately. I believe every county voted for Trump. And Weirton Steel was one of the steel companies that produced steel for the weapons for the arsenal of democracy FDR wanted the U.S. to become. My dad was an Army liaison officer at Weirton Steel during WWII. He earned a medal for expediting the production of weapons at Weirton, specifically a trench mortar bomb for Great Britain.
I deeply admire the towns and the people in western Pennsylvania and West Virginia who worked in the mills that made our weapons. I despise anyone who diminishes their contributions to our country and who looks down on their descendants as relics unworthy of our interest or compassion.