Barack Obama actually said...

Seeking a brighter future, a small band of Jewish refugees came to this land more than three centuries ago, to a place called New Amsterdam…

Press Release - President Obama Hosts White House Jewish American Heritage Month Reception

05/08/2011

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Nothing I say can fill the hole they leave in your hearts; the absence they leave in your lives.

Even as we mourn 29 lives lost, we also remember 29 lives lived.

All that hard work, all that hardship, all the time spent underground, it was all for the families.

These miners lived — as they died — in pursuit of the American dream.