Oct
11
st_louis_cardsfan asked:
My father has been a coal miner in Kentucky for 35 years and is up for retirement. It is a dangerous business. My grandfather was an underground coal miner and died at an early age of 65 with black lung disease. My prayers go out to those men trapped in the coal mines and my prayers go out to the families of the 3 rescue workers that died trying to save thsoe men. Thank God for brave men that them in this world.
Eldwin
My father has been a coal miner in Kentucky for 35 years and is up for retirement. It is a dangerous business. My grandfather was an underground coal miner and died at an early age of 65 with black lung disease. My prayers go out to those men trapped in the coal mines and my prayers go out to the families of the 3 rescue workers that died trying to save thsoe men. Thank God for brave men that them in this world.
Eldwin
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i think it’s sad, and that they’re dead, and that the people who died rescuing them are heroes….and that a-hole that owns the mine needs to be shot.
I feel so sorry for them. Not to mention the rescuers that have died trying to save another human being.
My prayers are with those familes in their time of need.
It is a heartbreaking situation. I too live in an area where coal mining is a big business. They get paid good and it convinces the young crowd to go that way for the money. . .but your life is on the line every single day. I feel so bad for all of the families that are involved in this tragedy. . .I can’t imagine it being my dad, my husband or my son in that mine. : (
How many mine accidents is America going to suffer through before we make the industry safe for its workers?
This is heart wrenching. Especially since we should have learned our lesson by now.
Like you, my prayers and thoughts are with those miners, their families and those who love them.
May God grant them the peace of Christ Jesus as they endure this tragedy.
I’ve focused my prayers on the family members since I first learned about the collapse. Obviously, as a Christian I would rejoice if they’re still alive too. But I really didn’t pray hard for that, to be honest.
I also think that the liberal media covers all such events in a typically hateful manner.
Here is Utah it’s despair that we can’t get to the 6, and sorrow for the lose of the three… Jim
I think they’re dead n it’s sad. My prayers do go out to those people trapped in the mines n the people that died trying to save them n also their families.
This has hit very close to home for me. My father was killed 8/24/79 in a mine 10 – 15 miles from this one in the news. He was the foreman of his crew (there were four men and they were all green horns) and they sent them into an area of the mine that they shouldn’t have been in to roof bolt and pull pillars. 4 men died and 1 survived. Afterward, they tried to say it was my dad’s fault because I guess it’s easier to blame a dead man than take the blame yourself. My mom was two months pregnant with me and my sisters were 7 and 3 1/2. I am so proud my dad was a coal miner and I am so proud of all the miners and rescue workers. Every miner knows the potential risks. I know we can’t control nature and we can’t eliminate all injuries, fatalities and disasters but our society should continue to find safer mining practices. These men deserve it. I also thank God for all the brave men like them in the world and pray for all the families, fellow miners and rescuers (heroes in my opinion), and these communities. I hope that the mine will remember the families who lost loved ones by providing financial assistance, college funds, grief counseling, etc. I know we weren’t.