A 19 year old picking up the pieces of his buddy has just aged beyond his years, a doctor or nurse trying to patch something that should never need patching, a fireman trying to save people in an inferno. They need love, from family, co- workers, and themselves. I worked in the bowels of the earth for years; those telling you that working in a mines is like working in a factory do not know what they are talking about. I have seen people killed and injured in gruesome scenes which nobody should ever endure. If not for the love of my wife, family, and close friends, the hardship would be 3 fold. That is why I am still 20 when my wife walks in the room, my daughters ask me for help, put a line ...

A 19 year old picking up the pieces of his buddy has just aged beyond his years, a doctor or nurse trying to patch something that should never need patching, a fireman trying to save people in an inferno. They need love, from family, co- workers, and themselves. I worked in the bowels of the earth for years; those telling you that working in a mines is like working in a factory do not know what they are talking about. I have seen people killed and injured in gruesome scenes which nobody should ever endure. If not for the love of my wife, family, and close friends, the hardship would be 3 fold. That is why I am still 20 when my wife walks in the room, my daughters ask me for help, put a line in the water hoping the fish will not bite, sit in a treestand on a frosty morning and watch a nice buck walk by, never raise a gun; but pour a hot cup of JOE. Keep young, keep a child around you, protect them at all costs; but let them live, that is our future.