Last Thursday a grieving nation farewelled the 29 men who died in the Pike River coal mine tragedy on 19 November.
Throughout the country we observed two minutes of silence in support of the families and communities of the West Coast miners.
Prime Minister John Key summed up the feelings of the nation when he said at the Pike River Official Remembrance Service in Greymouth:
“Your men were our men. And even if many of us know them only as names, and faces and stories, their deaths touched our lives, and we will remember them. May they rest in peace.”
Read the Prime Minister’s memorial service speech here.
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