One year ago today

On year ago today the BP oil rig exploded and caught fire.
I still hear something about it on the radio at least once a week. They are either talking about
the fact that 40% of the coast that once had oil come ashore still has oil on it;
how the big sums of money will be split up and who will get their gready hands on it;
how this has affected the state in lost jobs;
how someone got caught spending BP funds to pad their personal needs or wants;

BUT you seldom hear about the 11 guys that lost their lives trying to support their families.
I have no connection to any of them but here is a picture from the front day of todays local paper.


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And what happened to the guy that got off into the water, telling a reporter just what was happening inside and it didn't sound too good for the bosses. Never heard of/from him since. Bought off? Fellow rig men shut him up? Leo
 
Thanks for taking time to show your concern & condolences to the families who lost these fine men . Several of them were just boys with dreams for their futures . So sad how America forgets the loss of lives . Money is their main concern . Its the same thing concerning wars & lives lost there . Such a sad memory in deed . Thanks & may God be with those suffering from the losses . Ken
 
Thanks. Nice to finally see faces instead of the number eleven. 20 kids ? I feel for them. Hope all their futures are secured by BP.
 
The head guys/exec's of BP. the rig owner, and Halliburton got muliti-million $$$ bonuses for last year. They should be shamed/forced to give all of those millions to those kids/families. Forget the law suits. Their dad is gone. Set up a trust fund for a car at 16 and college. It's the least they could do.

-steve
 
Thanks for posting this. I think so many of us are caught up in the environmental disaster side of this tragedy that we over look the loss of these fellows or simply refer to this group as the eleven.

God bless these young men and their surviving families.
 
They gave the families what the law allows under maritime law. No more no less.
They were a expendable asset just like a broken tool.

The families do have law suit cases because this was no accident.
It was negligence and/or faulty parts. It will be years and the kids will be grown before that is settled.

BP just filed suit in court against the maker of the blow out preventer. They claim if the BOP had worked none of this would have happened.
 

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