“We Just Want to Go Home”
Paul Huet, CEO and President of Americas Gold and Silver, delivers the keynote message during the 54th Annual Sunshine Mine Disaster Memorial on Saturday.
JOSH McDONALD
A woman slowly reads the names on the 91 helmets that belonged to the fallen miners during the Sunshine Mine Disaster Memorial.
JOSH McDONALD/Press
For 54 years, the Silver Valley’s mining community has gathered on May 2 to remember the 91 men who never made it home after the Sunshine Mine Disaster of 1972. On Saturday morning, hundreds gathered at the Sunshine Miners Memorial near Big Creek to pay their respects.
The ceremony traditionally begins at 11 a.m., not for convenience, but because it closely aligns with the hour when events underground forever altered life above ground.
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