Hank R.

Serious question from someone who builds things for a living: if you were the Japanese or the Koreans this morning, would you sign the next order?

Because I would not. And that is my industry. That is my town.

Genuine question and not a gotcha: who buys the next batch?

I have spent thirty-one years welding things that get sold overseas. If the customer finds out the switch is in Texas, the customer buys French next time. That is my pension you are negotiating with.

Shop got a defence order today. Biggest in four years. Twelve of us going back on full hours.

I have wanted that for four years. I got it this way. I have not told my wife how I feel about it because I have not worked it out yet.

My grandfather flew out of Norfolk in 1943. Norfolk, England, not Virginia. He is buried forty minutes from Lakenheath.

We are bombing the country that buried him. I do not have a bigger thought than that and I have been trying to have one since four this morning.

Full hours again this week. Overtime Saturday.

My wife asked me last night if I was going to feel bad about the money. I said I did not know. She said "I do", and we sat there.

Anyway. Overtime Saturday.