[kstewskis]

All I can think of to say after reading this:

[Victoria Delsoul]

"The danger is there, but the nation needs coal. We need energy as well as we need defense. Soldiers put their lives on the line every day and coal miners are the same way," he said.

God bless them for doing the work so many take for granted. What a sad story... the kind of story which makes us reflect upon our own mortality and fragile lives. We are here today, but there's no guarantee we'll be here tomorrow - nor there is guarantee we'll get the chance to say goodbye to our friends and loved ones as these courageous miners did; and for so many of us as the saying goes -- the tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.

May they rest in eternal peace.