The UMWA helped kill coal.

I've always lived in southern West Virginia but have never been to McDowell County. People who have been there have told me it is really bad.

born and raised in McDowell county mom said never go back there keep your childhood Memorys of maybury only in your head born 1946.

Mu mom is from SWITCHBACK West Virginia in McDowell County. A coal mining town.

did you mention enough that he hasn't showered? geez

But we send billions to other countries that hate us while our people suffer in poverty. Charity starts at home first.

My people lived and still live there. I am old enough to remember how proud the people were back fifty years ago. Nobody would accept welfare back then. They got by somehow even in hard times. It's not the same now. People are so devastated by how our own government attacked the way of life. The new socialist/dems have trampled any goodness that was left, other than some of the amazing people still living there. So sad what our own leaders did to us.

I was born in Welch and raised in McDowell Co. At 2min57 seconds narrator says that visitors from NYC and Wash DC came to be entertained in Welch. Thats ridiculous. I didnt see any tourists at all and nobody I know saw any either. We were there for one reason, to work. Daniel Coleman, Pageton WV.

THOSE COAL MINES CLOSED DOWN THOSE MANY YEARS AGO BECAUSE WHEN THE COMPANIES THAT OWNED THEM NOTICED THEY WEREN'T MAKING MUCH OF A PROFIT THEY WERE SOLD TO OTHER COMPANIES WHO SOLD THEM TO OTHER COMPANIES AND SO ON, BUT BECAUSE NOBODY SAW ANY GREAT PROFIT IN COAL THAT IS WHY THEY WENT OUT OF BUSINESS.

PART OF THE POLITICS OF THIS IS OBAMA LISTENED TO THE LIES ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT AND SHUT DOWN THE COAL MINES BECAUSE HE THOUGHT IT WOULD BE FUNNY TO WATCH HILLBILLIES LIVE ON WELFARE, TRUMP RE-OPENED THE MINES SO THESE PEOPLE COULD HAVE THEIR LIVES BACK BUT OBAMA'S FORMER ASS KISSER BIDEN HAS PROMISED IF HE GETS THE WHITE HOUSE HE WILL SHUT DONE THE WORTHLESS COALMINES ONCE AND FOR ALL!

Read “ Night Comes To The Cumberland’s” by Harry Caudill from Whitesburg, Kentucky. It really explains of the plight of so many folks in Appalachia.

Our family is born n raised in Switchback wv

I was born in Welch in 1975 and my family lived in War. Hate seeing my home in such bad shape

I am from Delbarton Wv and know the Dingess Tunnel well. I left for Cleveland Oh 1960 for work. My heart is still in Delbarton. My dad worked for Puritan mines and I graduated from the old Burch high. What great people

There trying too get rid of what won ww1

Home💞

People have got to want to be helped before they can be helped, and the bigger part of those people in that cesspool area of our state do not want to be helped. They're content with nothing or else they would be doing something to change their situations. Were it me, and I had a family, I'd leave and find me some work somewhere and come get them, and get then out of there. I am convinced that people there do not really want any better, but it isn't just them, the entire southern part of WV is just like them. People stuck in poverty and they don't care, so long as they get their EBT, Welfare, and their pills - they're fine. That's a sad fact of life, but it is what it is. You have to want to do better before you can have better.

Lose the banjo pickn Beverly hillbilly music and you will attract more donations and support.

Obama's regulations are responsible for this

The stupid coal is king line followed by cheap rock n roll was so cringeworthy

I am so happy that they are having help and food, especially from universities. I wish all of them would do the same. But you are giving out turkeys? how are they going to cook it? do they have the facilities to cook? what other ways are there to help this county and community also if I wish to send clothing where can I send it to?? address and which via? Federal Express. I have not clue. waiting for your response. Thank you for sharing.

These stories makes me proud to be a west virginian. Help your neighbors. God only knows our local and state government doesn't offer any help. Prayers are always needed and accepted. I pray for McDowell County, I pray for our Country. I even want to pray for our government even though THEY want handouts Lord only knows they don't offer any. May God Bless you All.

I feel nothing!

They are poor, but the salt of the Earth people. You would be hard pressed to find better people

Why is it that President Obama is being blamed for the decrease in the coal industry. When strip mining started in ky that is when things took a turn for the worse Also automation took alot of these jobs to. I understand that people have the need to blame someone. The Government can start poring monies back in to the community with job training programs that can help all the people obtain jobs.

Good people in McDowell because we don't have riches doesn't mean we are trash !! It sad that there's nowhere to go for help times safe so hard I eqish I could get loads of food clothing furniture shoes just mix of things to help give to people that are in dire need even the hands of hope that is in town charge out the BUT" for things that so many give them for the county but u can't ask for a food box and get food to feed ya kids unless you have 5dollors and this people is a true fact!!! McDowell needs help so many families go hungry go without .. I just ran up in this video and unless you are or live here u truly don't know the depths of just how much we do need help.pls say a prayer for our county our families our children .

"FOR THE FORGOTTEN !!!!!!!!!!!!" - Braveheart

Where did they get this narrator? He can't even pronounce Appalachia.

kzbin.info/www/bejne/fp23qXp-o5mmfpY watch this yeah Obama did it to say its not Obama fault is A idiot

Tha answer to this all is work as a community...riches are fleeting...we cannot continue to rape the earth...it belongs to Yah...

People need to stop blaming Clinton and Obama! Though they didn't help the situation. This has been happening since the early 80's.

I get the impression that some people are pissed that outsiders came and made them feel bad when they helped. Unlike a lot of people I can understand that because when I was a kid and the welfare people came to our house with boxes of food because we had none. My father being from tennessee and with all his southern pride kicked all the boxes of food into the front yard and run off the two men and one woman and called them every name in the book. Now thats a real smart thing to do when you have a wife a four hungry kids but thats what you do when your a proud southerner . After about 2o minutes my dad told us kids to go out there and pick up that crap and bring it in the house. While I was picking up the food I looked down the highway and noticed the welfare folks parked about 3/4 a mile down the road watching to make sure we got it. I never said anything to my dad because he then would have piled it up and burnt it in the front yard. Sometimes its hard to help some people. No Im much older and I go to church regular and sometimes it pisses me off when my church goes on mission trips to poland and hatti and wastes two and three thousand dollars in airfare per person and in groups of 10 to 20 people just to spend 2 or 3 days trying to give the message of the lord to people that dont understand our language. That money would be spent so much better funding a local organisation in bad areas like McDowell County . But I guess churches do this because the dont get the resistance from fournier's like they do from Americans. The fourniers are more than happy to take the help

I heard that ten to twenty thousand coal mining jobs will be created by Trump in West Virginia by the end of the year. maybe up to forty thousand by 2020.

donald trump will restore coal

It's hard to believe this sort of thing is present in America. At least some of the financial difficulties they've experienced were due to government regulation killing their industry and jobs. What is government doing for them now? Volunteers had to do whatever they could to help out. It's nice to know someone cares. What happened to LBJ's "Great Society?"

You guys should make a facebook post for foreigners coming over to help. if you take care of food and a place to sleep for them, i'm sure there are people who would love to come working on this cause from europe (instead of taking a vacation;-)

May God Bless you!

Been there Many Years ago My Mother Knew a Evangelist who lived there! Named RA West I think, too Many Years ago and Mom is gone.

God bless you good people.

The real story. www.ag.ny.gov/press-release/ag-schneiderman-announces-17-m-settlement-nyc-church-after-pastors-take-illegal-loans

Learn the truth about this man. www.ag.ny.gov/press-release/ag-schneiderman-announces-17-m-settlement-nyc-church-after-pastors-take-illegal-loans

I was raised in Mc Dowell County.I am happy to see people get help and people feel good about helping, but tell the truth okay.Yes they have their poor and stupied like everywhere else.They have housing like the Elkhorn Towers for elderly and handicap other housing for their poor but you will never see that on a video.I just want the world to know " if you let your raw sewage run in the creeks and rivers here you will get a fine" the law does not allow this and has not for sometime. "FORGOTTEN" ? Really? You need to forget it.

It's really hard to hear my state talked about this way. I volunteered in Welch for two summers, and seeing how outsiders from other states reacted to the town versus how those from WV did was a little heartbreaking... and very insulting. Welch needs help, but not the kind that belittles or assumes things about the residents. For example, during my stay in Welch, another volunteer from Indiana assumed I couldn't afford to go to an out-of-state college simply because I was from this state. There's a divide quickly building between areas that get assistance in the US versus areas that don't, and though it's probably inevitable, people need to be more aware of that divide and look around it when they volunteer in underprivileged areas. Just because people are having tough times in this state doesn't mean they get to be looked down upon, generalized, or stereotyped.

god bless all of you !

Carl Keyes, the man at the start of this video, along with his wife, misappropriated millions of dollars from 9/11, Hurricane Katrina charities and the Glad Tidings Tabernacle church in order to buy themselves luxury houses, cars, holidays and private schools for their children.

Our Government is to blame for this and Obama has proven over and over that he will fight to keep coal mines at a minimum with more regulations higher taxes and astronomical fines. The corrupt liar has hurt coal miners everywhere and the liberal Hollywood crowd sends millions to Africa and everywhere else ( New Orleans was an exception ) when they should help the people that are in poverty here. Miners are out of work and the liberal Democrats and Hollywood are partly to blame due to their liberal agendas. I will keep this church in mind, our big bills will be paid off in about 14 months and I will be sure to donate monthly. I was born in Logan county and ended up in Alabama, across the river from Ga. 17 miles from Ft. Benning. The cotton mills were plentiful and you could easily get a job here in the 1980s. The Mills are all gone now to Mexico and China thanks to our ignorant Government that would rather have too many rules and regulations than to work with the companies and keep the factories here. I miss WV.

I would be hesitant to donate money to this mission as it's founder is under investigation for personal use of donation funds. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2207848/Ground-Zero-pastor-funneled-cash-4-8million-9-11-Hurricane-Katrina-donations-pay-mortgage-credit-card-sons-private-college-fees.html

Life's tough in the ".free state". It's hardly Obama's fault as some say though. Populations have been decreasing by large numbers ever since mechanization began. The continuous miner and belts and so forth have replaced all but a small percentage of needed miners. From a health standpoint the less miners that have to die in accidents and struggling to breathe with black lung the better. The worst mistake was not investing in other industries while times were good.

Do a simple google search for Carl Keyes and you'll discover a number links and interesting articles. and Mr Keyes is only one of untold out-of-state "charitiy" or "non-profit" organizations taking advantage of the situation. McDowell County's population has dropped off dramatically for more than 20 years, yet the money appropriated and donated has markedly increased. Numbers don't lie. People do.

Im from mcdowell but i left when i was 16 years old and went to raleigh co . I married my hubby here and made my life in raleigh co, but i still love mcdowell because its apart of me, and its so sad to see how bad its has gotten there.. God Bless Mcdowell county and all who live there.