Nothing I or the Vice President or the Governor... can fill the hole they leave in your hearts or the absence that they leave in your lives.
Barack Obama: “Nothing I or the Vice President or the Governor... can fill the hole they leave in your hearts or the absence that they…”
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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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