....first of all, by not attending to their mines - they'd been cited for safety violations before, and second, wire services reported this morning that the company knew that most of the miners had died...They couldn't have gone into the church where most of the families were gathered to tell them this?
From CNN - snippet - "Hatfield [mining exec.] said he knew within 20 minutes that an error had been made and that not all 12 were alive, but said he did not inform jubilant family members."
[bracketed info. added by me...]
[My fourth grader was upset and furious at the misleading newspaper headlines (she saw the one newspaper we get); she asked me to go to the pharmacy before school; she bought four more newspapers with her own money to take to school to show what happens when people are irresponsible with information like this...
Should be interesting since we have a terrible principal right now who, for the most part, does not allow ANY current events discussions in the classroom...my daughter said she doesn't care if she ends up in the office on this one..]
Sorry to cast aspersions here, but this sounds pretty heartless to me...
My husband made the comment that here we are in 2006, with all of our modern technology, and here these miners are, in a town with what sounds like a 17th century English name, working in just about the most primitive conditions known to man...
Prayers for the families of the miners who died, and God give the strength to the survivor to pull through...