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I grew up in a West Virginia mining town in Fayette County. A man named John moved into our town from New Orleans. He was a man, who I estimated was at least 6'6, 245 pounds. He had broad shoulders and trulythe definition of the V body type. He was really a man with strength and endurance.

John worked for some days, when there were no and he was absolutely a hell of a great miner. However, the  day came, when I was ten; a terrible disaster . Timber crossbars (木梁) were often used in mines to the top. That day my father was working alongside John in the mine. A timber cracked suddenly and the loud cry of men was  Hearing this, my dad and John rushed to the site of the . There some miners were trapped; they felt  and depressed, either in shock or in prayer.

In times of emergency, John began to rescue the miners without hesitation. He grabbed the timber and with a strong push applied all his  to it. In a seemingly impossible turn of events, the blocking moved. John  the timber and all the miners escaped, but in doing so, the wood structure was becoming further weakened, and John himself was trapped below in place of the miners. My father and the other miners started to work with their jacks (千斤顶)，desperately trying to John, but the top fell down suddenly and there was no of reaching him. John was buried there forever.

A small marble monument was in front of the entrance to the mine in memory of John, the hero who had sacrificed his life deep in the earth in order to save other miners.

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