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Michaelawt85 Bexley 21 Oct 16 10.31pm
Originally posted by Y Ddraig Goch I think it was just on BBC 1 I'm not 100% sure as ironically I was over in Wales on Tuesday night. Just found one from bbcwales. Not the hugh Edwards one. The most overwhelming feeling it has left me with was I just wanted to climb in the television and tell them stop, don't go to school if that makes sense. As they are talking about that day you know watching it what is coming. What happened to them. The other feeling was the victims would have been in their 60s now. People use the expression lives lost.. but it truly is a whole life of growing up, marrying , having their own families gone just like that.. They are all left frozen in time as little children. They never got chance to ever live their lives. It's as though they lived and died for nothing. So very sad. Not expressing myself quite clearly When I was a young girl my Mother said to me.. You listen here kid you're CPFC
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Bexley 21 Oct 16 10.31pm

Originally posted by Y Ddraig Goch

I think it was just on BBC 1

I'm not 100% sure as ironically I was over in Wales on Tuesday night.

Just found one from bbcwales. Not the hugh Edwards one. The most overwhelming feeling it has left me with was I just wanted to climb in the television and tell them stop, don't go to school if that makes sense. As they are talking about that day you know watching it what is coming. What happened to them. The other feeling was the victims would have been in their 60s now. People use the expression lives lost.. but it truly is a whole life of growing up, marrying , having their own families gone just like that.. They are all left frozen in time as little children. They never got chance to ever live their lives. It's as though they lived and died for nothing. So very sad. Not expressing myself quite clearly

When I was a young girl my Mother said to me.. You listen here kid you're CPFC

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johnno42000 21 Oct 16 10.34pm
I attended a church service today with some of my relatives as one of the children that died was related to us. Very moving service. With regard to Dynamics post about the fund a paper today said that the biggest individual contribution was from the Krays. [Link] Edited by johnno42000 (21 Oct 2016 10.37pm) Edited by johnno42000 (21 Oct 2016 10.37pm) 'Lies to the masses as are like fly's to mollasses...they want more and more and more'
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21 Oct 16 10.34pm

I attended a church service today with some of my relatives as one of the children that died was related to us. Very moving service.

With regard to Dynamics post about the fund a paper today said that the biggest individual contribution was from the Krays. [Link]

Edited by johnno42000 (21 Oct 2016 10.37pm)

'Lies to the masses as are like fly's to mollasses...they want more and more and more'

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Y Ddraig Goch In The Crowd 21 Oct 16 10.54pm
Originally posted by Michaelawt85 Just found one from bbcwales. Not the hugh Edwards one. The most overwhelming feeling it has left me with was I just wanted to climb in the television and tell them stop, don't go to school if that makes sense. As they are talking about that day you know watching it what is coming. What happened to them. The other feeling was the victims would have been in their 60s now. People use the expression lives lost.. but it truly is a whole life of growing up, marrying , having their own families gone just like that.. They are all left frozen in time as little children. They never got chance to ever live their lives. It's as though they lived and died for nothing. So very sad. Not expressing myself quite clearly You have expressed yourself beautifully I was only one when it happened, I am from the north so not directly impacted but it was something that cast a shadow on Wales for such a long time. There was a moving interview with Jeff Edwards, the last child to be pulled out alive on 5Live this morning [Tweet Link] the dignified don't even enter in the game
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In The Crowd 21 Oct 16 10.54pm

Originally posted by Michaelawt85

You have expressed yourself beautifully

I was only one when it happened, I am from the north so not directly impacted but it was something that cast a shadow on Wales for such a long time. There was a moving interview with Jeff Edwards, the last child to be pulled out alive on 5Live this morning

[Tweet Link]

the dignified don't even enter in the game

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Michaelawt85 Bexley 21 Oct 16 11.17pm
Originally posted by Y Ddraig Goch You have expressed yourself beautifully I was only one when it happened, I am from the north so not directly impacted but it was something that cast a shadow on Wales for such a long time. There was a moving interview with Jeff Edwards, the last child to be pulled out alive on 5Live this morning [Tweet Link] Was he the boy who was buried for two hours with a young dead girl resting on his shoulder? The other thought which just came to me is the future generations growing up there. They must live in the shadow of what happened. The anniversaries, the people there still alive who remember , the huge section of the cemetery devoted to the victims. People coming and visiting. Of course there is nothing wrong with any of that but for people trying to find their own way in life who weren't even born it must cast a very long shadow. Mention aberfan and that's what people talk about. Much the same as dunblane. It's ruined so so many lives and will go on doing so for a very long time. When I was a young girl my Mother said to me.. You listen here kid you're CPFC
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Bexley 21 Oct 16 11.17pm

Originally posted by Y Ddraig Goch

You have expressed yourself beautifully

[Tweet Link]

Was he the boy who was buried for two hours with a young dead girl resting on his shoulder?

The other thought which just came to me is the future generations growing up there. They must live in the shadow of what happened. The anniversaries, the people there still alive who remember , the huge section of the cemetery devoted to the victims. People coming and visiting. Of course there is nothing wrong with any of that but for people trying to find their own way in life who weren't even born it must cast a very long shadow. Mention aberfan and that's what people talk about. Much the same as dunblane. It's ruined so so many lives and will go on doing so for a very long time.

When I was a young girl my Mother said to me.. You listen here kid you're CPFC

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Cucking Funt Clapham on the Back 22 Oct 16 1.39am
The aftermath. [Link] No one sacked, no one prosecuted. The trust fund launched afterwards (unsupported by the NCB) forced to pay for the removal of the remaining adjacent tips. Bereaved parents asked 'how close' they were to their children in order to qualify for the niggardly £500 compensation per child. Criminal negligence allowed it to happen and a criminally cavalier attitude from government followed. A shocking, shocking event. It's one of my earliest memories and I clearly remember my mother (who was Welsh) being utterly inconsolable for a long time after, mindful perhaps that I myself had only recently started school. Wife beating may be socially acceptable in Sheffield, but it is a different matter in Cheltenham
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Clapham on the Back 22 Oct 16 1.39am

The aftermath.

[Link]

No one sacked, no one prosecuted. The trust fund launched afterwards (unsupported by the NCB) forced to pay for the removal of the remaining adjacent tips. Bereaved parents asked 'how close' they were to their children in order to qualify for the niggardly £500 compensation per child. Criminal negligence allowed it to happen and a criminally cavalier attitude from government followed. A shocking, shocking event.

It's one of my earliest memories and I clearly remember my mother (who was Welsh) being utterly inconsolable for a long time after, mindful perhaps that I myself had only recently started school.

Wife beating may be socially acceptable in Sheffield, but it is a different matter in Cheltenham

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