|
|
 |
|
|
|
#1
04-09-2010, 06:36 PM
|
||||
|
||||
Josh Napper
Coal miner Josh Napper had a sick feeling something wasn't right at his job, so he put his thoughts on paper, to those he loved the most before heading back to work. It would be his last communication with them. "If anything happens to me, I will be looking down from heaven," his handwritten note read. The 25-year-old Napper left it with his family in southeast Ohio, where he commuted to on weekends. Napper was among 25 people killed in an explosion at a West Virginia mine. His mother, Pam Napper, didn't find out about the note until after he returned to work at the Upper Big Branch mine on Monday, the day of the explosion. "I just knew that Josh in his heart knew that something was going to happen," Pam Napper said Friday. He knew because his April 2 shift had ended about two hours early over ventilation concerns at the mine. He drove to Ohio to spend Easter with his family. "I said, 'Why aren't you working?'" Pam Napper said. "He said, 'Mom, the ventilation's bad.' And they sent him out of the mines. Everybody." She rushed to the mine site after the explosion. Also that day, his fiancee, Jennifer Ziegler, drove to West Virginia to show her the note written to his mom, 19-month-old daughter and fiancee. "Dear Mommy and Jenna," Pam Napper recalled. "If anything happens to me, I will be looking down from heaven. If you take care of my baby girl, watch over (her), tell her all the good things about her daddy. She was so cute and funny. She was my little peanut. And Jennifer, I know things have never been the greatest sometimes, but I just want you to know I love you and I care about you."
__________________
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. ~ Joseph Conrad A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right. ~ Thomas Paine Don't let anyone tell you that your dreams can't come true. They are only afraid that theirs won't and yours will. ~ Robert Evans The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. ~ George Orwell, 1984. 
|
|
#3
04-09-2010, 07:03 PM
|
||||
|
||||
|
Quote:
__________________
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. ~ Joseph Conrad A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right. ~ Thomas Paine Don't let anyone tell you that your dreams can't come true. They are only afraid that theirs won't and yours will. ~ Robert Evans The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. ~ George Orwell, 1984. Last edited by Kasept : 04-10-2010 at 04:49 AM.
|
|
#4
04-09-2010, 07:24 PM
|
||||
|
||||
|
Thanks Steve,
This weekend is very bitter sweet. My best friend died this week at the age of 54 of heart desease. After 5 trips to the hospital, he said he had enough and decided to go home and die. Bottom line, life comes at you fast. This ride only lasts for so long. The things that make it important, the things that make it great, the things that make it worthwhile are simple, it's the people that mean alot to you, and you to them. May those that suffer rest in peace. May those that are in pain be made whole by the love that they have had. Spyder
__________________
Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things.
|
|
#5
04-10-2010, 01:31 AM
|
||||
|
||||
|
Thanks for posting those tributes, Steve. The dangerous work these men do to provide a product that we all pretty much take for granted needs to be applauded. When they lose their lives, they need to be remembered as something more than a number. The stories are heart wrenching.
This past Tuesday, as we were driving home from Lexington, KY on Route 64 coming through the mountains of West Virginia. I looked at the map to see where Montcoal was. When I felt we were in parallel to it, I looked to my right and said a prayer for all who died in that terrible explosion.
__________________
I l  Cigar, Medaglia d'Oro, Big Brown, Curlin, Rachel Alexandra, Silver Charm, First Samurai, Sumwonlovesyou, Lloydobler, Ausable Chasm, AND Prince Will I Am "Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.” Cecil Beaton
|
|
#6
04-10-2010, 03:35 AM
|
|||
|
|||
|
Well at least some of them found God. We wouldn't want them going to hell...at least Reverend As.sholeface wouldn't.
|
|
#7
04-10-2010, 06:50 AM
|
||||
|
||||
|
__________________
I l Cigar, Medaglia d'Oro, Big Brown, Curlin, Rachel Alexandra, Silver Charm, First Samurai, Sumwonlovesyou, Lloydobler, Ausable Chasm, AND Prince Will I Am "Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.” Cecil Beaton
|
|
#8
04-10-2010, 07:26 AM
|
|||
|
|||
|
Quote:
|
|
#9
04-10-2010, 10:08 PM
|
|||
|
|||
|
Quote:
|
|
#10
04-11-2010, 11:45 AM
|
|||
|
|||
|
Quote:
|
Hybrid Mode
