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Remembering the Upper Big Branch Mine explosion, on April 5, 2010
David Fahrenthold RetweetedThinking this morning about the West Virginians who lost husbands and fathers, brothers and sons, friends and coworkers at the Upper Big Branch Mine on April 5, 2010.
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Take a couple minutes today to read through then-AUSA Steve Ruby's closing argument in the Blankenship trial. It was truly remarkable:
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2515678-blankenship-trial-closing-arguments-transcript.html … (Starts on page 5935) ...
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Bright, shining faces, more grizzled faces... the context of the photo, such as in a kitchen or a cropped image from a formal photograph makes me think about the person's life story. They're not just a name I glance over then.
I know what it's like to lose a young adult child but not a husband or a parent. It seems like a traumatic death would be an extra level of torture for the families left behind and I really feel for them 
