I started working in the mines in about '69 or '70, when I was 17 years old. I just worked part-time during the summer. In '73, I hired on full-time. I worked 22 years there. I started out underground, then I moved to the outside for 18 years. I was a preparation foreman. That's the guy who gets the coal ready to go into the railroad train. You get the rock out of it and wash it....
