A distant cousin sent me some genealogy report on my father's side, and it's sort of what I suspected. Coal miners for generations... four or maybe five generations.

My father and brothers were coal miners.

I don't feel comfortable talking about my private life, and some people in my private life don't feel comfortable about me talking about it. So I don't.

We lost an entire generation of coal miners.

Over the last four, five years, you've seen some of the things, and maybe we did bend over too much for Ronnie to try to help him. But I can sleep good at night, knowing we did the best we could.

Hollander said. ''He suggested maybe making four or five alternatives.