PHONE COWARDS ATTACK DOMINION PLANT FOE'S FAMILY

WISE COUNTY MEN TALK DIRTY TO PLANT FOE'S FAMILY
Sunday, Apr 06, 2008 - 12:00 AM

By J. Todd Foster, Editor
Bristol Herald Courier
Bristol, VA-TN
E-mail | Biography

Larry Bush survived a combat tour in Vietnam and a dozen years mining coal underground. Then the Wise County, Va., resident and native spent 14 years as a federal mine inspector before an on-the-job injury forced his medical retirement.

Since then, Bush has spoken out against mountaintop removal and other extreme forms of surface mining. He's also made himself a target - coal truck drivers, he said, routinely menace him on the highway.

Now, his enemies are taking aim at his family, and that's where the 59-year-old Bush draws a bold line in the sand.

In late March, two men called the Bush home. The first left a profane message on his answering machine, and the second cursed - and worse - both his grown daughters, one the mother of his grandchildren.

Be forewarned: The messages were profane.

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