My father and brothers were coal miners.

We lost an entire generation of coal miners.

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.

And Father, how can I love youOr any of my brothers more?I love you like the little birdThat picks up crumbs around the door.

I come from a coal-mining, working-class background. My father was a coal miner.

My brothers were rabbis. My grandfather was a rabbi.