Aberfan survivor reunites with rescuer's great-grandson 60 years later

The Aberfan disaster killed 116 children and 28 adults on October 21, 1966, when colliery waste collapsed onto a primary school; the caretaker who rescued Gareth lost his two sons in the tragedy.

Sixty years after a mountain of colliery waste swallowed a Welsh primary school and took 144 lives, the threads of that morning are still finding one another. A survivor named Gareth Jones, speaking to a classroom of ten-year-olds, discovered that one of his young listeners was the great-grandson of the caretaker who had pulled him from the rubble — a man who saved children that day while losing his own two sons in the same collapse. Across an ocean, another survivor carried the same story to American schoolchildren, not as history but as a living inheritance, urging the young to speak their g

Aberfan survivor reunites with rescuer's great-grandson 60 years later

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