08/31/2008
https://transcripts.cnn.com...
"Never forget, they say, miners keep America's lights on."
"Even as we mourn 29 lives lost, we also remember 29 lives lived."
"Nothing I say can fill the hole they leave in your hearts; the absence they leave in your lives."
"All that hard work, all that hardship, all the time spent underground, it was all for the families."