This is going to be awfully tough on the man who misinterpreted the conversation and I really don't think fingers ought to be pointed at him.
The fact is, these men died whenever they died and all the hoping or accusations don't change that a bit. We need to be praying for the recovery of Randy, he's got a real fight ahead of him.
You always hear that after tragedies such as this that many involved take their own lives. He truly needs our prayers as do all the other miners at this company and the rescue workers.
My dear daughter, bless her heart, on hearing he was dehydrated, got to wondering if he had a living will.
We should not lose slight that we still have a miracle on our hands. The fact that even one of the miners is still clinging to life after being exposed to carbon monoxide for that long is a miracle.
I just watched the replay of the Geraldo tape at the church. Someone tells Geraldo that the men were alive, Geraldo asks, "Who said?" Other people came out yelling that the men were alive. Their source was, "They". "They said the men are alive." Then the bells started ringing.
Problems like this don't happen every day. But still, I would have thought that there would be one person from the mine designated to communicate with families and that families would know to only accept formal reports.
It is terribly sad, but everyone jumped the gun because it was what they wanted to hear.