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On the recordApril 24, 2010
All that hard work, all that hardship, all the time spent underground, it was all for the families.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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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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