Al, the families' 28-year campaign was to get the truth. They were told that Liverpool fans picked the pockets of the dead. They were told that Liverpool fans urinated on the police. The victims and families were demonised by a "newspaper." Not one person in a position of authority at the game challenged any of that. It suited them to see the blame deflected. Police statements were altered in order to shift blame from the police on to fans. Lies were told about the management of the crowds entering the ground at the beginning of the match. There was a tidal wave of untruth and misrepresentation washing over distressed families, as if losing loved ones wasn't bad enough. It took 28 years to wring the truth out of people whose main concern was to cover their own arses. During that 28 years, many of the bereaved died, often prematurely, often as a direct result of the disaster. They went to their graves knowing that the truth still lay hidden and that justice had not been done. Because of the lies, dozens of families have had their lives ruined. I think that is incontestably obnoxious, inhuman and downright disgraceful. And a lot of the people responsible are the "poor sods" you mention.