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LISTEN: The West Memorial Service

Bill Zeeble
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Flag draped coffins inside Baylor's Ferrell Center.

As many as 10,000 people have crowded into the Ferrell Center at Baylor University in Waco for a memorial service honoring the first responders and residents of West, Texas, who died last week when the town's fertilizer plant exploded.

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