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My grandpa was born April 11, 1897 in Pottsville, Schuylkill County, PA. During his service in WWI, he was exposed to mustard gas, severly damaging his lungs. After the war, he returned to work in the Anthracite coal mines of eastern Pennsylvania. It was the WWI gas and black lung disease that ultimately took him from us, far too young compared to the lifespan of his parents and grandparents, and before I really had the chance to know him, on December 12, 1960.
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