At a protest held June 23 at Marsh Fork Elementary school, miners were in full force to show their true colors, and I don’t mean their monkey stripe suits which they are often seen wearing. Weraring these stripped suits, is just another way of showing the control Massey Energy has over them. These workers are so ignorant to realize that once Massey is through with them, they are history. All they can see is the day that they wake up in each day. I was fortunate enough to get my time in to receive my UMWA health card, which is for life. That’s something these Massey miners will have to deal with when the time comes when Massey put them out to pasture, they’re done with them. Their services will have been used, then they are history. As I was talking to the crowd on that day, I was interrupted throughout my speech. I heard one say that I had been fired by Massey, that was a false statement, I quit Massey Energy, because I refuse to take the shit, that these employees take. I’m one who stand my ground, and take no shit from no one. This is something Massey Energy isn’t use to. They are use to always getting their way. I also heard someone say that Massey had built my house which I live in. I built my home in Sylvester, my hometown, on union money as a union miner. It was only the acts of Elk Run Coal Co., that destroyed everything that I had built on a union pay. So the house I had in Sylvester, was twice the house, than what I live in now. Another yelled that I didn’t have the balls to set in the road and get arrested. I’ve been arrested several times during demostrations against Massey. The real truth, was I had to travel to Washington the very next day to attend Senate hearings on mountaintop removal, which to say that the coal industry got their ass kick at these hearings. A far more satisfaction than going to jail. But I applaud the ones who choose to get arrested, and making the statement this practice has to stop, and it will. For the ones, and their brain-washed wives, that show your ass at the rally, I just want you to know that your days as a mountaintop destruction worker are nearing the end. It’s time you all start thinking about asking your elected officials, what’s next for us, and that you demand to be trained for a renewable job that will replace the fossil fuel industry. I just hope you have the knowledge to understand the history of the coal industry, and that you are only a number, and that’s all.