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#4305014 - 10/21/16 06:05 AM Wales set to fall silent as the nation remembers Aberfan  
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Wales will fall silent today as the nation remembers one of the bleakest chapters in its history – the Aberfan disaster.

Fifty years after the tragic events of October 21, 1966, the community in the former mining village will come together to remember their loved ones while all of Wales will observe a minute’s silence at 9.15am.

That still moment of silence will mark the exact time when a waste tip slid down the mountain into the village of Aberfan, killing 116 children and 28 adults.

The slurry engulfed Pantglas Junior School and neighbouring homes after schoolchildren had returned from an assembly where they sung All Things Bright and Beautiful.

A generation of children in the village were wiped out in an instant.



We are heartbroken as a nation today.

In the dark Welsh valley
On the mountain side
Lay the little children
Close to where they died
Their little lives were ended
Before they reached their goal
Tender little children
Have payed the price for coal

We will never forget - ABERFAN 09.13am 21/10/1966

Paul


Mae hen wlad fy nhadau yn annwyl i mi,
Gwlad beirdd a chantorion, enwogion o fri;
Ei gwrol ryfelwyr, gwladgarwyr tra m�d,
Dros ryddid collasant eu gwaed.
Gwlad, gwlad, pleidiol wyf i'm gwlad.
Tra m�r yn fur i'r bur hoff bau,
O bydded i'r hen iaith barhau.
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#4305045 - 10/21/16 09:45 AM Re: Wales set to fall silent as the nation remembers Aberfan [Re: Simbo_Sim123]  
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Heart breaking, RIP.


That Farrow bloke you executed today, are you sure he's dead?
Well I chopped his head off, that usually does the trick.
Yes, don't get clever with me Baldrick. I just thought you might have lopped off a leg or something by mistake.
No, the thing I chopped off had a nose.
#4305048 - 10/21/16 10:02 AM Re: Wales set to fall silent as the nation remembers Aberfan [Re: Simbo_Sim123]  
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A national tragedy, and a national disgrace. The NCB should be ashamed of their actions, before and after.
My family is from up the Valley, Abertillery and Newbridge.

Jim

#4305049 - 10/21/16 10:08 AM Re: Wales set to fall silent as the nation remembers Aberfan [Re: Simbo_Sim123]  
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RIP
I remember it, it was horrifying and shocking, in school we had a memorial service for all those that were victims of the tragedy. I was 10 years old at the time.

Many years later, around the year 2000, I was in Aberfan on a job and there was still a sense of the people were living under a cloud.
Very sad indeed.


Chlanna nan con thigibh a so's gheibh sibh feoil
Sons of the hound come here and get flesh
Clan Cameron
#4305057 - 10/21/16 10:23 AM Re: Wales set to fall silent as the nation remembers Aberfan [Re: Simbo_Sim123]  
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I was 7 and also remember having a service at school. Truly a terrible event.It can never be forgotten.


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#4305089 - 10/21/16 11:08 AM Re: Wales set to fall silent as the nation remembers Aberfan [Re: Simbo_Sim123]  
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So sad. All the children were aged between 7 and 10.
Lord Robens should have been put up against a wall and shot. The #%&*$# along with George Thomas How dare he even suggest that the clean up operation be part funded through the Aberfan disaster fund.
A national disgrace is right.
An entire generation of that village wiped out in seconds. If it had happened a few minutes either side of 9:15 a lot of the children would have probably survived.

Sad sad sad event. Still stirs up a lot of sadness and anger 50 years on.

SD


From the hills rebounding
Let this war cry sounding
Summon all at Cambria's call
The mighty force surrounding

Men of Harlech onto glory
This shall ever be your story
Keep these fighting words before ye
Welshmen never yield
#4305105 - 10/21/16 11:46 AM Re: Wales set to fall silent as the nation remembers Aberfan [Re: Simbo_Sim123]  
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I remember it very well. The actions of the company were reprehensible. God bless all those little souls and those who grieve for them.


Archie Smythe

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