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Graduate Student Joseph Popson remembered reading a book one minute and the next, "waking up in a puddle of water with one shoe, my jacket and glasses gone, and an engine lying not far from my head." To cope with their helplessness in this sudden shift from calm to catastrophe, people begin almost at once to experience a kind of "psychological closure" or "psychic numbing"-they "simply cease to feel," Lifton explains...
...went the mine guards' guns. Tear gas enveloped the strikers. One guard shot another guard's arm off by mistake. Fifteen strikers were dropped by bullets, their names a typical roster of U. S. mine labor: Louis Kromer, Steve Hrosky, George Ely, Anton Maura, Walter Ordorsky, Paul Popson, Mason Robert, George Hroska, Joe Goletz, Mike Budman, James Shannon, George Illeg, Vincent Stunga, Joseph Kromer. One fell on the railroad track, was barely dragged to safety before an oncoming freight train. For the shootings a mine boss and six guards were clapped into jail...
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