Aberfan. It dawned on me that something terrible had happened.In the village it was a hive of activity, miners and men from the Hoover factory were frantically working on a huge pile of slurry, which had enveloped the school.
I thought, ‘There’s plenty of men here, I’m a minister, I must go with the people.’ So I went to the women standing in the street,.Many of them were in shock and could only talk about what they’d had that morning for breakfast or saying things like, ‘I wish I didn’t send him to school this morning – he said he had a headache and I thought he was putting it on.’We still didn’t know the scale of it, I thought the children would be rescued.
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