On the recordApril 24, 2010
Never forget, they say, miners keep America's lights on.
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presidency.ucsb.eduBarack Obama: “Never forget, they say, miners keep America's lights on.”
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Remarks at a Memorial Service for the Victims of the Upper Big Branch Mine Accident in Beckley
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