I was cleaning out the kitchen range of the house we had just bought when I heard the news. Two weeks later a whirlwind struck the school where I was teaching and we had to dig children out from beneath the rubble of a collapsed tower, it has moved me to tears as I write this. We were singing at Fairbridge Festival near Perth W A when I heard Greg Hastings sing his song for Aberfan It struck such a chord that I sat and sobbed. One of the memories that has stayed with me was the letter the school got from the Aberfan school.
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