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President Obama Honors Those Lost and Injured in West, Texas Explosion
April 25, 2013 at 06:15 PM EDT
President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama attend a memorial service at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, for victims killed last week at a fertilizer plant explosion in West, Texas, April 25, 2013.
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“But today I see in the people of West, in your eyes, that what makes West special isn't going to go away. And instead of changing who you are, this tragedy has simply revealed who you’ve always been.”
http://m.whitehouse.gov/blog/2013/0...s-those-lost-and-injured-west-texas-explosion
I live in west Texas (not where this occurred). Props to the President for attending this service. Given all that was going on, I think he would have been justified in sending some official instead of going himself. That he didn't do that was a class move, IMO.
From one West Texan, sincere thanks, Mr. President.