| Aberfan 21-10-1966 11:50 - Oct 21 with 957 views | KeithHaynes |
Remembered today 🙏
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| Aberfan 21-10-1966 on 11:59 - Oct 21 with 947 views | theloneranger |
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| Everyday above ground ... Is a good day! 😎 |
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| Aberfan 21-10-1966 on 17:49 - Oct 21 with 866 views | Kilkennyjack |
RIP 🙏🏼 |  |
| Beware of the Risen People
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| Aberfan 21-10-1966 on 19:30 - Oct 21 with 837 views | KeithHaynes |
It seems that awful day is slowly being forgotten. | |
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| Aberfan 21-10-1966 on 20:01 - Oct 21 with 819 views | builthjack |
A truly awful day |  |
| Swansea Indepenent Poster Of The Year 2021. Dr P / Mart66 / Roathie / Parlay / E20/ Duffle was 2nd, but he is deluded and thinks in his little twisted brain that he won. Poor sod. We let him win this year, as he has cried for a whole year. His 14 usernames, bless his cotton socks.
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| Aberfan 21-10-1966 on 21:05 - Oct 21 with 784 views | max936 |
| Aberfan 21-10-1966 on 20:01 - Oct 21 by builthjack |
A truly awful day |
I was working up on the street below the Memorial grounds a few years ago, it sent a shiver right through me, been meaning to go back up and lay flowers, but I still haven't I will though Mrs said the same, funnily enough I mentioned it yesterday. |  |
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| Aberfan 21-10-1966 on 00:18 - Oct 22 with 743 views | theloneranger |
‘THE DAY MINERS CRIED’
It was my first morning shift, I will never forget,
etched in my memory, overwhelming regret.
I constantly ask myself “Could I have done more?”
that tragic scene of destruction, I daily deplore.
Nightmares still haunt, memories so painful,
prayers I still offer, for those lost little angels.
That Autumnal morning, life changed forever,
rescuers digging with earnest endeavour.
Families distraught, Aberfan shrouded in grief,
my mind was in turmoil, it was total disbelief.
Digging for hours, small bodies sadly recovered,
no hope for the future, all violently smothered.
We openly wept, it was too much to comprehend,
colleagues alongside me, totally overwhelmed.
To save those entombed, with time running out,
nothing else mattered, sobbing tears throughout.
On that sorrowful day 144 souls were stolen,
a rain sodden soil tip, leaving families broken.
I still shed a tear, because I cannot forget,
that first shift from hell, it has left me bereft.
Fifty eight years on, a day with me for life,
never to be forgotten, it still cuts like a knife.
Aberfan a village, who on that day died,
it was also the day when ‘ALL MINERS CRIED’
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| Aberfan 21-10-1966 on 09:50 - Oct 23 with 609 views | Joesus_Of_Narbereth |
A completely preventable tragedy of course but those in authority put money first.
We still haven’t learned. |  |
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| Aberfan 21-10-1966 on 01:44 - Oct 24 with 517 views | Robbie |
Was 9 years old at the time , all was a bit over my head and did not take it all in .
My late Old Man insisted we drove up to Aberfan few days later in our old Cortina to just look at the carnage and understand this event .
I was bored and wanted to go home , no interest to me and told my dad that .
He looked at me and then I realised later in life he was so upset at them deaths . |  | | |
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