Posted on 01/15/2006 7:21:28 AM PST by wjersey
BUCKHANNON, WV - A memorial service is planned for this afternoon to honor the 12 miners who lost their lives in the Sago Mine accident earlier this month.
The service will be held at 2:00 pm Sunday at the Chapel on the West Virginia Wesleyan Campus in Buckhannon.
The chapel doors will open at 12:30 p.m.
Officials say the chapel itself can hold about 1,800 people and the city is estimating 3,000 will attend.
After the chapel fills, others will be seated in the school's gym.
Governor Joe Manchin and Senators Robert Byrd and Jay Rockefeller also plan to attend.
Meanwhile, the sole survivor of the accident, remains in critical but stable condition at West Virginia University Hospitals in Morgantown.
Condolences to all families and friends of these hard-working miners.
Wesleyan Chapel at West Virginia Wesleyan College Camden Avenue & Meade Street This is the picket for the memorial of the 12 dead miners. This is to connect the dots for them. When they thought the miners were alive for 3 hours, they said God blessed them and that it was a miracle from God. Now they are dead; God spoke to them. He issued a curse and NOT a blessing.
For more of their brilliance on this matter, see their PDF: Thank God for His outpoured wrath and for 12 dead miners.
I hope that Phelps and his band of congenital idiots aren't mistaken for deer.
I don't
Is there no one else out there watching this?
Homer Hickam just gave an awesome speech in tribute to the Sago miners, and to coal miners across the United States.
Is there ANY news or pictures of Fred and his cast of idiots showing up in WV yesterday? Just wondering....
From the Charleston Daily Mail --
"Look, they're all close together," one woman observed. "Like true West Virginians right there."
Meanwhile, members of the fringe group that calls itself the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas, arrived as promised to protest the service.
About an hour before the start of the service, between 20 and 25 West Virginia State Police troopers spread a line of yellow tape across half of Camden Avenue and made a human barrier in front of the group's 16 members and the throng of heckling public who gathered on a hill nearby.
Every once in a while, members of the group would break out in some kind of variation on John Denver's "Take Me Home, Country Roads."
Westboro's lyrics to the song included a reference to the controversial film "Brokeback Mountain," which deals with homosexuality -- the plague of mankind, according to the group members, and, for some reason, why the group contends the 12 miners lost their lives.
"Brokeback Mountain's in Wyoming, Einstein!" one heckler yelled.
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