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Location: nappanee IN | hey guys, please remember the boys from the wv club.
i saw the address of the town and it's buckhannon.
a lot of the club members are from that area so please put them in your prayers
that's where that mine accident was and it don't sound good. thanks guys for all your support
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | On my way back from the C&R Muskie club meeting, BBC Radio reported that 12 of the 13 are alive and rescued. One man is one too many to lose, but it's near a miracle the twelve survived if the BBC account was accurate. |
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Location: The desert | I am listening to the press conference right now at 2:12 am and what I am gathering is that 12 of the 13 did not survive and the last one is clinging to life......Prayers and thoughts go out to all the families, especially since they were missinformed about the fate of their loved ones.....very tough to hear.
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Location: Athens, Ohio | I have not taken the time to match the list of miners with our chapter list. I hope all our members are safe. I know a couple fellows on www.wvangler said they had folks in that mine. Did anyone else find it odd that the CEO of the mine company's name is Hatfield and the lone survivor is named McCoy?
MS NBC reported this morning:
John Bennett, whose father Jim Bennett was one of the victims and had been due to retire in April, complained that his father would “tell me how unsafe the mine is.”
Problems at the mine had been “going on for months ... and they still send men in,” Bennett told “Today,” adding that he felt that if the mine owner had allowed workers to unionize the violations wouldn’t have happened.
In the words of an old Woody Guthrie song, "See what your greed for money has done!"
God's blessings to the families involved. m |
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Location: Lincoln UK | Very unusually the BBC reversed the figures within an hour or so, very odd that they were inaccurate.
Mines are and always have been very dangerous places in which to work,safety costs money and in this case it seems to have been ignored.
My thoughts are with reletives and loved ones of those concerned. |
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