Aberfan survivor: My childhood ended that day

[@tracyleesmith781]

I came here from watching the Crown on Netflix. I'm paying my respect & my condolences to the Aberfan community. 🙏🏾❤😢🙏🏾🇺🇲✌🏾 R. I.P.

[@gabibuster1998]

tleesmith781 lol I just watched the crown to but it’s really sad

[@heath2510ok]

Thank you my friend ❤️🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@angelanikki14]

tleesmith781 same. Condolences to these lost children and every person affected.

[@tracyleesmith781]

@@heath2510ok Ur very welcome friend❤🙏🏾

[@tracyleesmith781]

@Definitely Not Tom Bc that's where I lived ✌🏾

[@kierstencoats4417]

I also learned about this tragedy from watching The Crown. As soon as the episode started in Wales I immediately knew there was going to be a tragic episode so I googled Aberfan to prepare myself but it still didn’t stop my heart from breaking. As a mother of two young boys my heart definitely goes out to all the children and their families. 😢

[@dreamingofsaturn1]

I cried really hard thinking about the poor kids

[@daydreamergirl03]

Survivor's guilt is a REAL trauma society needs to stop dismissing it

[@sianharry8053]

Never blame yourself for someone else’s mistakes

[@Roddy556]

He blames himself for his good fortune. Which is ironically very unfortunate.

[@Yash-bb3fy]

R.I.P to all 166 victims who lost their lives on 21st October 1966; May God Protect the Humanity against such tragedies!😢

[@starsfalldown1234567]

May elune shine their path from the hereafter. The goddess watches over them.

[@DOCTORDROTT]

don't feel guilt, it was not your fault, you we just caught up in a disaster.

[@nonyabidness5708]

If it is preventable, we need to stop using the word "accident". Error in judgement is so much stronger.

[@lamsy1]

Thank you, diolch yn fawr. Such a strong statement but so true !!

[@petebowditch5168]

@@lamsy1 this was not a accident it was a mass murder .so many young lives lost .r i p

[@bcjnk]

totally agree this was not an accident the people and the NBC knew about the spring under the heap and the NBC did everything it could to blame everyone else and donot forget they had the nerve to use some of the money people had donated for the clean up

[@terrythomas1329]

Technically there's no such thing as "an accident", everything is avoidable but such is written and spoken language it offers nothing more than "accident" RIP to all 144 victims of this "tragedy".

[@marilynalexander5446]

this still brings me to tears I was 13 years old and in school in swansea South Wales the feeling all over Wales was of deep deep sorrow like a cloud had passed over our beautiful country

[@Flooorine]

As a mother, this tragic story made me cry so much. Those poor poor childeren terrified, gasping for air... It almost sounds unreal. My heart goes out to the parents of their sweet little childeren... What a cruel world we live in, discusting!!

[@Efreeman22]

The Crown brought me here but I’m glad to have learned about this tragic event in history 🙏🏽

[@ranatangboo1185]

Such a sad event...never heard of it growing up in uk i was born in 67..the crown covered the story so well . Rip too all those innocent lives lost.

[@hanlieloyd9260]

This is the most heartbreaking event that should have been avoided. God bless the community that still feel the pain and rest in peace to those who so sadly died that day.

[@VickyLovell-h7g]

Will, never,be forgotten,bless, you,all 2:10

[@silverstarlightproductions1292]

I never even knew that this happened before I watched The Crown. So devastating. 😢💔

[@nachmanka]

As coming from the Polish mining town as well, I felt such pain while listening to what happened in Aberfan, those young children were the age of my Mother. God bless their little hearts and all families who lost their beloved ones in this tragedy :(

[@Axel-ll2jp]

Here from the crown on Netflix ! This iS so tragic Rest In Peace 🙏

[@julieseifert8641]

I have also watched this episode of The Crown. Respects to everyone involved. I couldn’t even begin to imagine the pain. I was 8 years old at the time and still to this day remember my parents talking about it as they were from the UK only months of the tragedy occurred.

[@gavhinds8190]

Who the hell left a dislike...R.I P. To all who died that day...

[@JulieWallis1963]

gav hinds maybe people who don’t find the unnecessary death of children to be a form of entertainment!

[@Supersquishyawesomeness]

julie Wallis education isn’t entertainment. Had the story been dramatized along fictional storylines in an effort to make a buck that would be a different story.

[@kevinstephenson4674]

@@JulieWallis1963 I have deliberately clicked like to balance out someone's distastefulness.

[@lindastorey6685]

I visited Aberfan in the 70s and the cemetery is heartbreaking to see.

[@johnnewton3335]

i was passing last week and felt that i had to call in to pay my respects, i was 11 at the time and it really affected me, i went to the gardens, very peaceful, i couldn't face going to the cemetery.

[@stephenrossiter2679]

I was 9 in 1966 and that day, in fact one report from Mitchelmore ended my childhood. The people (from all over the world) responded. The officials (the queen and her ministers) were abject in their failure. Its not systems its people. I would always trust a neighbour than a Queens good champion. Both may fail me but I know, if it comes to it, who I will trust.

[@maryr.4757]

Who put a dislike on such a tragedy?? Who are you?? Sad.....

[@carlgriffiths8482]

Unbelievable I was thinking exactly the same

[@seanwebb605]

It's binary. You can choose like or dislike. Those are the only two options. A dislike doesn't necessarily mean that you are negative towards this man or the people who died. You may very well just like how the story was shot, edited or produced. You might disagree with some of the claims. But your only option is like or dislike.

[@mamanarafa1252]

they choose dislike simply because they don't like this tragedy to happen.

[@seanwebb605]

@@mamanarafa1252 That's quite possible.

[@JulieWallis1963]

Mary R. So you think people should be ‘liking’ a tragedy that ends with the death of almost 200 children? Not everyone gets the kick from sad news that _you do_

[@MikeStrip]

Bless him. This is so sad. Prayers for all who perished in this disaster. 🙏

[@josephlezano7691]

Never knew about such loss of life in the U.K. It must have been terribly difficult for him and families. 50 year's too late ,but my condolences to all those who lost a loved one. From British Gibraltar,U.K Overseas Territory.

[@boiifyoudont2952]

Oh my god this is painful to watch im so sorry for all who lost their lives and loved ones poor angels

[@SOLDIER110_]

i learnt about this tragedy after watching crown. i cried , those poor children and parents. i have cine to give my condolences and pay my respect i am so sorry for your loss .

[@tanana2070]

Just watched that episode of the Crown. Terrible thing. Don't feel guilty because you survived, you are still here for a purpose...to tell the story.

[@Moniquethompsonn]

It’s so sad how I’m just finding out this happened in history!

[@Sailor.Catracha]

So sad. And no one was prosecuted nor lost their job at the NCP?

[@silverstarlightproductions1292]

It's disgraceful. All those children dead, and all the NCP cared about was saving their own skins. 😤😤

[@margaretworth3837]

Oh dear god I remember this horrific day

[@kevangreenhalgh9806]

Never ever forgotten,With Love and Heart Felt Respect. XX

[@rhymeandreasoning]

Aberfan was a side recommendation on KZbin last night. I never knew of the Aberfan disaster so I watched. Then just today I found out about The Crown, and the episode they had done on Aberfan. I never watch The Crown but found the episode on Netflix and just now watched the episode. Heartbreaking, and heartwrenching. I send my belated sincere condolences to all involved, and effected.

[@veebee7039]

Heartbreaking. Came onto KZbin after watching The Crown 😢😢 Can’t stop crying. Poor children…R.I.P. 🙏🏾❤️🙏🏾💜❤

[@profesorluisramos2449]

So sorry

[@aprilolsennn]

The Crown brought me here. My heart hurts for those families who lost their children and loved ones to this disaster.

[@fragrancebyarsh]

I came here after watching The Crown 👑 on Netflix Its was heartbreaking to see this disaster. My deeply condolences to those families. RIP

[@samhutchingshutchings873]

SHOCKING............. 1 mins silent

[@deniseeulert2503]

I'm from the US and I remember the disaster when it happened. I was the same age about as all those kids and I kind of thought "It could have been me."

[@arisjatmika]

R.I.P 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻☹️☹️☹️💐💐💐

[@shawnadyment]

KZbin needs emotional reaction buttons instead of thumbs up or down, because I can't quite "like" this video, you know? It's so tragic.

[@Lauranna]

A terrible burden for a child to carry. I can’t imagine the pain of the parents.

[@megancole5803]

im upset

[@jenniferknight1511]

Poor kid.

[@andypanda4927]

That is a "Strong" community. I suspect most 'villas and burgs would be, pretty much, permanently shattered.

[@spd47]

An awful tragedy,RIP.

[@nicolewrytr]

God bless.

[@mistieblue9]

My deep Condolences to the people of Aberfan! 🙏🏻 A lot of us didn’t know about them. How to forget? A horrible disaster that horrified me by watching on Netflix the Crown the disbelief of the political arrangements in place that knew the whole problem they were causing without even thinking about what could happen. The question I asked myself as I looked at these pictures after: « What happened to this village after? Is it that they have received help from the government or the crown? »

[@Production791]

MistieBlue Research..the Government robbed them and the people suffered...they were even means tested to get access to grief assistance. Never will I forget.

[@raeortegag.741]

knowing this by watching the crown

[@wendydonovan1777]

So so sad

[@KenzoBrown16]

🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙏🏻

[@wendydonovan1777]

Rip

[@bachiltonsbattlegrounds3702]

I like how everyone here is because of Netflix... lmao

[@minuteman4394]

I'm here because I can recall this tragedy clearly and one of the things that stayed with me was the fact that emergency services were prevented from getting to the site by rubber neckers blocking the narrow roads.awful.

[@love_agapi_m3976]

Bc most of us didn’t know about the tragedy until we watched The Crown. It was before I was born. So we are coming here to pay our respects. Better late then never

[@bachiltonsbattlegrounds3702]

It was before I was born too , you heathens need to learn your history

[@kevangreenhalgh9806]

Never

[@Funkopopsstorewalkthroughsunbo]

Terrible I can’t watch 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿Cymru am byth