Alive!!!!

[mrsv98]

AP and Reuters are reporting that at least some of the nine miners trapped since Thurs are alive!!!!!! Keep those prayers coming!

 

[helenabear]

I pray they find all alive...

 

[Catzeyes]

They just reported all 9 are alive!!

 

[bsnyder]

Isn't it incredible!!! I have goosebumps!

The governor is getting ready to have another press conference!

Hopefully, he's just been to tell the families the good news!

 

[Mom2Em]

What wonderful news!!!!

 

[disfanatiks]

This is such wonderful news....What a miracle...

 

[Bennet]

I hope it is true, CNN is saying the same thing. Hope they get'm all up safe!

 

[zurgswife]

Amazing.....The governer is getting ready to speak soon about this on CNN!!!!

 

[Jennyfyar]

What a miracle. Thank God!

 

[disfanatiks]

The governors words, ALL NINE ARE ALIVE!!!""

 

[Dan Murphy]

Wonderful news!!!!!!!!!! http://msnbc.com/news/785322.asp

Yep, miracles do happen.

 

[debster812]

OMG. After 3 days to find all 9 of these men alive. That is just miraculous!! Watching the news conf on CNN and just all teary-eyed.

 

[SuiteDisney]

Oh, Happy Day! I'm so happy to hear this news.

 

[NancyIL]

I saw the news while watching SNL, and when the words "all nine miners" scrolled across the screen - I was sure it was going to be bad news. Thanks be to God!!

 

[EROS]

GREAT NEWS!!!!!!!

 

[SplshMtn99]

Woohoo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[luv2nascar]

Praise God!
Such wonderful news all 9 alive & quite well
Now lets hope they rescue them uneventfully
and that they are all well

 

[Liz]

That's so wonderful!!!! I can't imagine enduring what they have been through.

 

[SuiteDisney]

I just gotta say again how happy I am. I'm watching CNN and crying for joy. My mother married into a coal mining family when I was 7. My step-father's father was crushed to death in a mine and his grandfather lost a leg in the mine and I've sort of taken this story personally. You know, 50 years ago it wouldn't have been possible to save these men.

I've been singing this old folk song in my mind... Judy Collins has a beautiful rendition of it...

COAL TATTOO

Travelin' down that coaltown road,
Listen to those rubber tires whine;
Goodbye to Buckeye and White Sycamore,
I'm leavin' you behind.
I've been a coal man all my life
Layin' down track in the hole,
Got a back like an ironwood bent by the wind
Blood veins blue as the coal.

Somebody said "That's a strange tattoo
You have on the side of your head."
I said "That's a blue print, left by the coal
Just a little more and I'd be dead"
And I love the rumble and I love the dark
I love the cool of the slate.
But it's on down the new road lookin' for a job
It's the travelin' and lookin' I hate.

I've stood for the union, walkin' the line,
Fought against the company;
Stood for the U. M. W. of A.
Now who's gonna stand for me?
I got no house and I got no pay,
Just got a worried soul;
And this blue tattoo on the side of my head
Left by the number nine coal.

Someday when I die and go
To Heaven, the land of my dreams,
I won't have to worry on losin' my job
To bad times 'n big machines.
Well, I got no job and I got no pay
Just got a worried soul.
And this blue tattoo on the side of my head
Left by the number nine coal.
Left by the number nine coal.

 

[Goofball]

Oh my goodness, I can't believe it! Thank God!! And thanks for posting this!