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in time....

There's a time to live

And a time to die

There's a time to laugh

And a time to cry

 

There's a time for war

And a time for peace

There's a hand to hold

In the worst of times

In the worst of things...

 

Memorial for the Cherry Mine Disaster in tiny Cherry,IL. The 1909 disaster stands as the 3rd worst mining accident in US history-259 men and boys lost their lives that day.Many of them are buried in the cemetery of this tiny central Illinois town in the shadow of the large tailings mound from the long defunct coal mine.The mound still turns red in the fall when the foliage dies away as if bleeding for the souls lost there...

 

History of the disaster here...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1909_Cherry_Mine_disaster

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