TripleB
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Same hereI'm a transplanted Texan, a newcomer to WV. I find the coal mines and miners interesting and sad. Almost all the adult males I've met or spoken with here in southern WV have a linkage to the mines. Either they worked in the mins themselves or a brother, uncle, cousin, or their father and grandfather earned their living in the mines.
The history of WV is filled with numerous coal mine explosions and miners who died in the mines. Almost all the men in many remote rural areas worked in the mines so when a coal mine explosion occurred, most of the male population of the area were killed in one single tragic event.