Obama to deliver miners' eulogy

Monday, April 19, 2010
By Daniel Malloy, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama will deliver the eulogy Sunday for the 29 miners who died in a coal mine explosion earlier this month.

The service, announced today by West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin, will be held in Beckley, W.Va., and will include prayers, musical performances, tributes to the miners, and remarks from Mr. Manchin and other dignitaries.

Vice President Joe Biden will join the president to participate in the service, according to a White House news release issued today.

The service will be held at the Beckley-Raleigh County Convention Center, at 200 Armory Drive in Beckley, at 3:30 p.m. Sunday. Seats are open to the public on a first-come, first-served basis.

The April 5 blast at Upper Big Branch mine, about an hour west of Beckley, was the deadliest coal mining disaster since 1970.

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Damn, the president delivering a eulogy for 29 coal miners is pretty neat, IMO.

by all coal miners, their families, and everyone in WV.

It's just a matter of time before this happens again.

i remember the summer of 2008.

I thought you had to be a priest to deliver a eulogy.

Friends and family members often do the eulogy.

I've wanted him to go there for a long time.

Too bad he is going for such an event though.

he finally is starting to live up to his speech about who we are and what we can be. the speech where he called out those who wish to divide us.

the first black president of the united states going into coal country to eulogize the miners is something no one there will ever forget.

stand up with the mining families--and the Teabaggers stand with the Scumbag CEO and the mining monopolies.