Barack Obama: “All that hard work, all that hardship, all the time spent underground…”

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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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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Barack Obama: “All that hard work, all that hardship, all the time spent underground, it was all for the families.”