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1 in 5 veteran miners now has Black Lung, and yet the Black Lung Disability Fund is at risk of effectively disappearing. This week a group of retired miners, widows, lawyers and organizers traveled from Appalachia to Washington D.C. to lobby on Capitol Hill. In this episode of Mountain Talk we chat with some of them about their personal experiences with Black Lung Disease, and their work to try to save the Black Lung Trust Fund. We hear from retired miners Bethel Brock and Jimmy Moore, Patty Amburgey who lost her husband to Black Lung, and Appalachian Citizens' Law Center's Evan Smith.