Pete and Maura Kennedy appears on The Kennedys (band) album "Better Dreams". They write in the liner notes: "We were in West Virginia while this was happening, and the manipulation of the hopes of the townspeople gave an extra overlay of tragedy to the event." /Users/stimac/Desktop/01 Track 1.mp3 This song Coal Mines was written in 2006 to memorialize the miners lost in the Sago Coal Mine explosion. See also Aracoma Alma Mine accident (January 19, 2006) Mining accident Quecreek Mine rescue (July 2002) References Sources ABC News; January 3, 2006, Rescuers Break Ground in Miner Mission. Associated Press; January 5, 2006, The Victims. The New York Times. Barnes, Jonathan; January 5, 2006, West Virginia mine rescue makes slow progress. (Reuters) Times of Malta. BBC News and Current Affairs; January 3, 2006, Hopes fade for trapped US miners. BBC News and Current Affairs; January 4, 2006, Last push to save trapped miners. BBC News and Current Affairs; January 4, 2006, 'Miraculous' rescue for US miners. BBC News and Current Affairs; January 4, 2006, Only one US miner reported alive. BBC News and Current Affairs; January 4, 2006, US mine 'rescue' turns to tragedy. BBC News and Current Affairs; January 4, 2006, Fury over US mine 'rescue' fiasco. BBC News and Current Affairs; January 4, 2006, Mine families' anger at 'lies'. BBC News and Current Affairs; January 4, 2006, West Virginia's devastated community. BBC News and Current Affairs; January 6, 2006, Crucial hours for mine survivor. Bowling, Brian and Conti, David; January 2, 2006, Condition of trapped miners in West Virginia unknown. Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. Breed, Allen; January 4, 2006, Families Say 12 W.Va. Miners Found Alive. Associated Press. The Republican Mine Disaster: Blood on their Hands CNN.com; January 2, 2006, Rescue teams creep toward trapped coal miners. CNN.com; January 4, 2006, Family members say 12 miners found alive. CNN.com; January 4, 2006, 'Believe in miracles': 12 miners found alive. CNN.com; January 4, 2006, Grief, anger as all but one miner found dead. CNN.com; January 4, 2006, Quecreek 'miracle' offered Sago families false hope CNN.com. January 18, 2006, Doctor: Sago survivor awakening from coma Dao, James; January 3, 2006, Blast Traps 13 in a Coal Mine in West Virginia. The New York Times. Duke, Armando; January 2, 2006, Explosion at W. VA Coal Mine Traps Workers. AXcessNews.com. Finn, Scott; January 16, 2006, 'They’re West Virginians' State celebrates lives of 12 fallen miners. The