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Lifer
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Home Invasion for real. Years ago in the middle of the night we awoken by a masked man pointing his gun directly at us. One kicked our front door in and the other stood at the base of our bed. He had came through the bathroom window. He grabbed Debbys' handbag! We heard shooting in the living room as my son in law tackled the other! Kenny grabed the gun and returned fire as the 2 escaped with nothing dropping Debbys bag in our driveway! Lesson learned, Keep your firearms within reach of any emergency or their worthless~~~~Eric
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To get the coal, we had to cross UMW picket lines. I finally stopped doing that as my wife was ready to divorce me. Eastern Kentucky is an unusual place. Many think the stories coming out of there are puffed up. Such is not the case.
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Yep. His father (my Grandfather) came and picked him up at school one day. He didn't go back for a "loooooong time". He remembered hearing the gunfire in the hills at nite. He would have been about 7 years old (1931). When he did finally return to school, there were bullet holes/chips on the building! My Grandfather was originally a coal miner in the area, but by this time he was a Methodist minister.
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The Battle of Matewan (also known as the Matewan Massacre) was a shootout in the town of Matewan, West Virginia in Mingo County on May 19, 1920 between local miners and the Baldwin-Felts Detective Agency. There was a movie made about that coal mining town and the massacre. And too, there was the Molly Maguires but they came earlier. |
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