January 25, 2020
Eagle Herald
Dear Editor,
As the people went about their daily lives in the town of Brumadinho they were completely unaware that the massive tailings dam at the mine was getting weaker every day. Then maybe just a small section started to fail, just a little. Then a little more gave way on the massive wall. That wall held the safety of every man, woman and child in the town, those working at the mine and every living thing below it. When it could no longer hold its contents the wall exploded with the sound a jet makes when it breaks the sound barrier. A force that could be heard and felt inside of every living thing. then it was over. It was just a matter of minutes and it was over. Hundreds were buried alive before they could even tell the ones next to them that they loved them. Two hundred and fifty lives were extinguished in a snap of a finger. Men, women, children and babies, precious pets, livestock and the town of Brumadinho died a terrible suffocating death under a wall of mud.