West Virginia Coal Mining Tragedy

News of any coal mining accident always seems to strike me hard. My fraternal grandfather was killed in a coal mining accident in Scranton, Pa. when my father was a young boy. He never had the opportunity to know his dad and when my grandmother remarried all reminders of my grandfather were removed from his memory. I was named after my grandfather and a couple of years ago I was given his work pocket watch, the very watch he had on him when he was crushed in the mining accident. It's still a sort of eerie feeling I get every time I hold that watch to see its indentations from the accident.

My thoughts and prayers go out to the families for the loss of their loved ones.