{Whitesville, West Virginia}...Construction could start as early as this week on a permanent 48 foot memorial in Whitesville for 29 miners killed in the 2010 explosion at the Upper Big Branch mine in Raleigh County. Pray Construction will install temporary fencing around the future site of the memorial to allow construction to get underway. Organizers say the back of the memorial will have the image of "Daddy's Hands" etched on the back as part of the tribute to all the miners, past and present. A poem dedicated to all miners who have died working in the coal industry will also be etched on the granite. The front of the memorial will have 29 silhouettes, symbolizing the 29 miners who died on April 5, 2010. "Come to me, All Who Have Labored, And I Will Give You Rest" will be etched underneath the silhouettes. The state seal of West Virginia will be cast in bronze and embedded within the granite on the front of the monument.
