I was 7 when the Aberfan disaster struck and 116 children were killed by a landslide of slag and earth taken out of a nearby mine. Because I was around the same age as those killed, it had a profound effect on me that still affects me whenever the subject crops up. I read this morning that a clock retrieved from the rubble of the school has been donated to the museum in the town. The poignant part of this story is that it stopped at 9:15, the precise time the landslide struck the school. It says so much.
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