Note Left Behind by One of the W. Va. Miners... So Sad :(

ExpatPumpkin

CHARLESTON, W.Va. – Coal miner Josh Napper had a sick feeling something wasn't right at his job, so he put his thoughts on paper, to those he loved the most before heading back to work.

It would be his last communication with them.

"If anything happens to me, I will be looking down from heaven," his handwritten note read.

The 25-year-old Napper left it with his family in southeast Ohio, where he commuted to on weekends. Napper was among 25 people killed in an explosion at a West Virginia mine.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_mine_explosion_victim_vignettes

Jaytee501

I read this earlier today; so sad, eerie.

fairy_diva

I'm a WV'ian from the Beckley area and can tell you this area and families are devastated.   I'm lucky in the fact I don't have any close family there, but I did have some friends and my SIL's 1st cousin was on his way in for evening shift when it happened.  We're hanging onto a slim thread of hope that the final missing four were able to get into the last refuge chamber.
I do know some of their fear and pain, we almost lost my brother in 2006 to a mining accident, the trip to Charleston, where he was airlifted to was the longest drive of my life and the wait until the surgeons came out to tell us his status was excruciating. We got lukcy, and although he is totally disabled from his injuries, he is alive and walking today.