I was nine years old when the plane crashed. In the fifty years since I have endured most of the horrors that life can throw up. Nothing has ever come remotely close to the devastating effect that that event had upon me.
I had finished my paper round and gone with my best mate, Paul, to his house where his mum had some toast waiting for us. It was just before five o'clock. They had a television and we put it on. Instead of the programme we expected it was the newsreader telling us a plane had crashed. It was Manchester United's plane. We heard the news but couldn't believe it or grasp it. I ran home to my grandparent's house and told them what I thought I had heard. They put the wireless on and the three of us waited for the news to come on on the Home Service. It confirmed what I thought I'd heard. When my dad got home he knew. He worked in Hardman Street next to the Daily Mail offices and they all knew. When we found out when the boys were coming home I so wanted to go. My mum was reluctant, but dad insisted I should go. We got the bus up Princess Road and stood outside St Ambrose church near the corner of Princess Road and Barlow Moor Road. We seemed to stand there for ever. Then the coffins came. The coffin of Roger Byrne my Hero of Heroes was amongst them. It was like the worst possible of bad dreams. But it got worse. Duncan died. I have never recovered from those events and I never will. Please use [EMAIL PROTECTED] for general discussion. To unsubscribe send a blank message (from the email account in question) to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Join as a full member of IMUSA today: http://www.imusa.org/join.htm Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/imusa/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/imusa/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
