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A ray of light

“Before you go under the mountain into the coal mine, you look up at the sky and wonder if that's the last time you'll ever breathe fresh air,” said Bob Hammonds, who worked in southeastern Kentucky's coal mines in the 1990s. “Every night when I went under the mountain that was my last thought. The next morning when I came up, looked out and saw the sun, I thought, ‘Whew, I made it.’” Coal-mining is a dangerous job. Miners work thousands of feet underground beneath millions of pounds of rock. They are surrounded by high-voltage electrical lines, darkness, ...

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