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    Posted April 21, 2010 by
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    Oil Rig Platform in the distance

    By andshewasnot  |  Posted April 21, 2010  |  Lafayette, Louisiana
     

    The platform in the distance is not the one that is on fire today, but a random one that I got a photo of last summer. The point of this ireport is to ask a question. There are 12 missing men out in the Gulf of Mexico right now, why aren't they being hailed as heroes in the media? Why, when the miners were missing, every news outlet ran constant information on them, yet with this story, hardly anything at all? My husband works in the oil industry, and is on a rig in the gulf right now (though again, not the one on fire). These men and women work incredibly hard, to get us OFF of foreign oil dependance. Yet they seem to be ignored when tragedy strikes. What gives?

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