<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for Urgent letter from Bo Webb on Coal River]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by Pompey Road http://www.grist.org/article/Mr.-President-Our-lives-are-in-your-hands/ Fri, 20 Feb 2009 09:26:14 -0800 http://www.grist.org/article/Mr.-President-Our-lives-are-in-your-hands/1 Same mud same blood:

East Kentucky, below a Mountain Top Removal and a Hollow fill. Below a silt dam that was raised to a greater height with an insufficient drain.

Family here since early 1800's, father died in coal mine accident.

20th Combat Engineers, "Land Clearing" 509th Heavy Maintanence Co. Vietnam

I thought I had seen destruction until I come home to by own valley. The is irrepairable

The eons of time and nature was good to us down here. It was not until we become civilized that destroying our habitat become fathomable or fashionable.

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East Kentucky, below a Mountain Top Removal and a Hollow fill. Below a silt dam that was raised to a greater height with an insufficient drain.

Family here since early 1800's, father died in coal mine accident.

20th Combat Engineers, "Land Clearing" 509th Heavy Maintanence Co. Vietnam

I thought I had seen destruction until I come home to by own valley. The is irrepairable

The eons of time and nature was good to us down here. It was not until we become civilized that destroying our habitat become fathomable or fashionable.

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