[Sunshine55]

I wonder every day if they would have had a chance had it not taken so long to get to them. Continued prayers going out to the families.

[the invisib1e hand]

every ceo’s nightmare.

[saganite]

Dwight Yoakam wrote a song which captures perfectly the coal miners life.

When the whistle blows each morning
And I walk down in that cold, dark mine
I say a prayer to my dear Savior
Please let me see the sunshine one more time

(Chorus:)
When oh when will it be over
When will I lay these burdens down
And when I die, dear Lord in heaven
Please take my soul from ‘neath that cold dark ground

I still grieve for my poor brother
And I still hear my dear old mother cry
When late that night they came and told her
He’d lost his life down in the Big Shoal Mine

(Chorus:)
When oh when will it be over
When will I lay these burdens down
And when I die, dear Lord in heaven
Please take my soul from ‘neath that cold dark ground

I have no shame, I feel no sorrow
If on this earth not much I own
I have the love of my sweet children
An old plow mule, a shovel and a hoe

(Chorus:)
When oh when will it be over
When will I lay these burdens down
And when I die, dear Lord in heaven
Please take my soul from ‘neath that cold dark ground

Yeah, when I die, dear Lord in heaven
Please take my soul from ‘neath that cold dark ground

[alicewonders]

How horrible for the families. Lord, please comfort them.

[spokeshave]

I blame Clinton for these deaths....he locked up the massive deposits of high grade low sulfur coal in Utah that could have been won by low danger open cast mining......instead we have these hero miners scrabbling for coal in dangerous conditions thousands of feet underground.

Bush needs to issue an executive order rescinding the clintoon coal lock up and designating the coal as a national energy resource and get mining ASAP.

Add ANWAR to the order also.

Prayers for the families.

[bubbacluck]

I read somewhere recently that upwards of 20,000 Chinese die every year in coal mines. 47 deaths here a year are 47 too many, but it is a very dangerous job.

[omega4179]

The families need to get over it. 3 men died trying to get in there and they insult their sacrifice by calling on the ceo to get them out dead or alive.