Aberfan Disaster Anniversary

[grahamw48]

I didn't look at it at all that way Steve,

I was 14 when it happened, and remember that awful day well.

116 little kids... plus their teachers, were crushed and smothered to death in their school building, that's all.

I feel compassion for their families and friends.

[mickcant]

I didn't look at it at all that way Steve,

I was 14 when it happened, and remember that awful day well.

116 little kids... plus their teachers, were crushed and smothered to death in their school building, that's all.

I feel compassion for their families and friends.

I was abt 22 then it seems most of the covering up was done by the "National Coal Board"
Mick.

[Arthur Little]

I didn't look at it at all that way Steve,

... remember that awful day well.

116 little kids... plus their teachers, were crushed and smothered to death in their school building, that's all.

I feel compassion for their families and friends.

One survivor taking part in a memorial service, Janet Bickley - now 58 - recalls the fateful day in 1966 ... when she and her classmates were trapped under the coal debris that engulfed the building :

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-37728985 (video)

[Arthur Little]

It seems most of the covering up was done by the "National Coal Board" ...
Mick.

... looks that way.

I was about 22 then ...

So was I ... !

[Steve.r]

I didn't look at it at all that way Steve,

I was 14 when it happened, and remember that awful day well.

116 little kids... plus their teachers, were crushed and smothered to death in their school building, that's all.

I feel compassion for their families and friends.

I think it is just the way modern reporting is always looking to point a finger. Sure mistakes were made, but it never brings back loved ones, who's families of course I sympathise with.