I was married on October 22nd 1966, at that time my husband to be was in the army and had been serving in Aden for a year. He only made it home two day's before our wedding!
I can remeber feeling so happy at the thought of my forthcoming marriage. Sadly this happiness was marred by a news item on the following morning, Friday 21st October 1966 was the Aberfan disaster in South Wales, I was so touched by the events that took place, all those children buried under the slag heap.
I have now been married almost 39 years but there has not been a year go by that I haven't remembered those children.
I did pay a visit to the cemetary at Aberfan a few years ago, I took some flowers to place there, but when I saw all those graves on the hillside, all 116 of them, all identical, I was again moved to tears, I thought where do I put the flowers, there are so many graves. Set in the earth a little way along passed the graves was a black marble plaque, a memorial to the children that died thta awful day, I laid my flowers and said a little prayer for those lost children, how their mother's must have felt on that day I can't begin to imagine.
I just know what an impact it had on my life and I have never forgotten that sad day,it falls the day before my wedding anniversay which will be 39 years in October.
Submitted by June
Manchester
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