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From: Rosanne Gemzik <>
Subject: [PAMONROE-L] A Stamp Honoring Miners - We need help!!!
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 23:19:25 GMT


I came across the following article in the Citizen's Voice on
Monday. It was brought to my attention by my mom, who
had been telling me about the petitions that were being
passed around at local Senior Citizen Groups in an
effort to have the Postal Service create a stamp with a miner on

it.

MINER STAMP IS POSTAGE THAT'S DUE, LET'S GET ONE

A postage stamp depicting the American Miner is not too much to
ask.

We have stamps honoring rock stars.

We have a stamp with the word LOVE.

We have stamps showing pictures of presidents.

We think they've all been great.

And we think the postal service has done a good job of regularly

asking Americans what pictures they would like on postage.

So we're perplexed as to why the post office has not responded
to a perfectly reasonable and well meaning request of a group of
Wyoming
Valley Residents to have a stamp memorializing coal miners.

A stamp with a miner would make a heroic-looking picture.
The group has even done a sketch. And certainly, the
contribution of the
miners to American industry - past and present - is worthy of
recognition.

So we're even more perplexed - even disturbed - to read in the
Sunday Citizen's Voice that local advocates for the stamp have
been
told it' not in the national interest. A stamp with a miner
would be a
great stamp. The local people who are trying to get one - John
Vengien, Donald Godek, Chet Brozenza, Catherine Cavary, Harry
Newak, Ernest Paulis and Leonard Sarnick - deserve our support.
And they deserve a positive answer from the postal service.

Write for a stamp honoring miners to:
U.S. Postal Service
Attn: Stamp Development
475 L'Enfant Plaza, S.W.
Washington D.C. 20260-2435

Please forward this to everyone you can think of, persons, congressman,
senior citize groups, libraries etc.

Rosanne Munley Gemzik

In memory of:
John Gardner, killed in mines, Aug. 1878, Pittston Pa
Patrick Kelley, killed in mines, 1879 , Pittston Pa.
Thomas Gardner, died of Miner's Asthma, 1907 , Pittston Pa
Thomas Kelley, died of Miner's Asthma, Leadville Colorado
Joseph Volvonas, died 1943, in mines in Pittston Pa.

ATTACH YOUR NAMES AND FORWARD ALL OVER THE NET! THEN SEND A
LETTER!

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