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My father was an employee of the mill, as was my grandfather. >> during the hay day, there were three paper mills, cotton mill, a silk mill, a foundry, a beehive of activity here. >> back then, a company town like this, the company actually took care of you. they built and provided homes for their employees. schools, the river provided energy. the company provided nearly everything else. >> the hayday is gone. people are definitely struggling to find work. the town just kind of died during the '80s. >> when the folks came to work, they were immigrants -- >> attracted by the manufacturing here....

If i had to go back there, now, i don't believe in drugs, i don't have anything to do with them, but what choice would i have? stand on the corner, i would probably get into a business. what's a good business? well-paying business? i'm sorry. that's where we are. ♪ >> yes, it used to be a very different world towns like this one. and there were many. but like everywhere else, it seems the mills, the factories closed down, and with them a certain kind of social contract with the people who worked there. >> my name is ed gregory, originally from terrence falls, born and brought up here, born i...

He had me come up to do the mentor pin and as he did that, he said stay here for a minute. and so i stayed there for a minute. he said, now go sit down. and the representative came in and he had the medals and then he came up and he said, would you please come up here again. so i went up front and they awarded me my medals. i'm like numb. i had no idea this was happening. and above all, my wife kept it quiet for a whole year. >> so you finally -- we should point out, these are not medals that everybody gets. not that everybody gets them, but these are not run of the mill medals. how good does ...

>> this is a business of third generation steel worker and this is what we know in the city of lorraine. steel is lorrain and the direction we're going, we're proud. we're proud. we will always be proud when it comes to steel making. we need the level playing field like everybody is saying. give us the opportunity and we'll show it. we always do. >> lorraine has a long history of steel making and i'm third generation also, both of my grandfathers worked in the mill, my father worked in the mill. >> this is what you want to do. >> this is what i want to do. i enjoy what i do. and help the commu...

That was in spring of 2009 in wichita. when he was pulled over that day, he had a post-it note on his dashboard that included the phone number of the local activist who he'd been in contact with, who, herself, was a convicted clinic bomber. now she writes a column at lifenews.com. she gets quoted in the "kansas city star" ads an antiabortion leader. she pled guilty for conspireing to blow up a clinic with a gasoline bomb. she's considered to be a leader of the movement. people who shoot doctors and bomb clinics and try to bomb clinics and try to set clinics on fire, they're not run of the mill...