Every coal miner I talked to had, in his history, at least one story of a cave-in. 'Yeah, he got covered up,' is a way coal miners refer to fathers and brothers and sons who got buried alive.
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Then there was the whole concept of coal mining, which is a culture unto itself, the most dangerous occupation in the world, and which draws and develops a certain kind of man.
My father and brothers were coal miners.
He described how, as a boy of 14, his dad had been down the mining pit, his uncle had been down the pit, his brother had been down the pit, and of course he would go down the pit.
Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives.
My great-grandfather was a coal miner, who worked in Pennsylvania mines when carts were pulled by mules and mines were lit by candles. Mining was very dangerous work then.
A distant cousin sent me some genealogy report on my father's side, and it's sort of what I suspected. Coal miners for generations... four or maybe five generations.
Being in a Chinese coal mine for 30 years is like an epic novel. It's tragic.
Rick Santorum is the grandson of a coal miner. His dad was the manager of a V.A. hospital.
Growing up, I didn't know anybody who didn't have a miner in the family. Both of my grandfathers were miners.
I come from a coal-mining, working-class background. My father was a coal miner.
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