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50 years ago today God decided with the help of rthe Coal Board to take all those little children in the Aberfan school to be angels. We must never forget them and their families |
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"50 years ago today God decided with the help of rthe Coal Board to take all those little children in the Aberfan school to be angels. We must never forget them and their families "
This was not a act of god...it was and will always be a man made tragedy by the NCB the fault clearly lie's at their feet!! |
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"50 years ago today God decided with the help of rthe Coal Board to take all those little children in the Aberfan school to be angels. We must never forget them and their families
This was not a act of god...it was and will always be a man made tragedy by the NCB the fault clearly lie's at their feet!! "
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"50 years ago today God decided with the help of rthe Coal Board to take all those little children in the Aberfan school to be angels. We must never forget them and their families
This was not a act of god...it was and will always be a man made tragedy by the NCB the fault clearly lie's at their feet!! "
And The Labour Government of the day whose belief in the importance of nationalised industry oversaw their responsibility to the people.
I am touched to see how much air time the various news channels have given to the anniversary. My late father attended the scene as part of the Mines Rescue Service and would never talk about what he witnessed that day. We should never forget those who perished and the survivors whose lives were changed forever. RIP. |
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Born in Abertillery though my family moved away my youth is defined by the greyness of a valleys mining community, my family visited the new graveyard not long after it was finished. Though the reminders in the streets were gone the slag heap was still there as oppressive as ever. I still vividly remember being told by my Mother that one of my cousins was in the "lucky half of a classroom" and escaped through a window, she said the other half of the class were in the "unlucky part". That was how she described it, my parents rarely spoke of it at all.
We don't forget, we can't forget, those lost children were my age so as I look at my life I'm reminded of what was stolen from them.
All day Friday I was uncomfortable and tearful.
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