Liz has an excellent entryon Coal Mining, OSHA, and how it ties into her own family history.
My grandfather was a coal miner, too, in Wilkes Barre, Pa. My mother IS a coal miner's daughter.
Now, in the somber light of a day where I am down and depressed, I realize just how, if things had turned out different, my grandfather might have been claimed by a tragedy much like the horrible ones in coal mines recently.
And with that...its possible that my mother, and thus myself, would not even exist today.
Posted by Jvstin at May 21, 2006 10:33 AM