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Who Were The West Virginian Miners? Miners' Lives Remembered

First Posted: 06/13/10 06:12 AM ET Updated: 05/25/11 05:10 PM ET

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The Time West Virginian:

The 29 killed in the worst U.S. coal mining disaster since 1970 leave behind sons and daughters, parents, grandchildren and a network of friends in their small, close-knit communities in southern West Virginia.

Not all the dead have been identified. These are the stories of those who have been named so far, either by mine owner Massey Energy Co., the medical examiner or family members.

Read the whole story: The Time West Virginian

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The 29 killed in the worst U.S. coal mining disaster since 1970 leave behind sons and daughters, parents, grandchildren and a network of friends in their small, close-knit communities in southern West...
The 29 killed in the worst U.S. coal mining disaster since 1970 leave behind sons and daughters, parents, grandchildren and a network of friends in their small, close-knit communities in southern West...
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Arianna Huffington: The West Virginia Mining Disaster and the Financial Crisis Have the Same Root Cause

Both calamities occurred because elected officials who should have been creating a regulatory system instead created a system that protects the corporations it was meant to watch over.

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