18 Years On...

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It's 18 years today since the Hillsborough Stadium disaster in which 96 Liverpool fans lost their lives.

Every year I go to the Hillsborough memorial and lay some flowers and spend some time to remember the fans that died so horribly.

I was a schoolgirl at the time and a season-ticket holder at Anfield. I knew a lot of people who were there - luckily none of those that died, and remember it like it was yesterday. At the time I wrote a poem which was published in the local paper and put on a banner in Anfield. I was also invited to write on the concrete steps of the Kop a while before it was knocked down, and I've changed it slightly as the years have passed.

I wanted to post it here in memory of the 96 who died. It's not the best poem in the world but it came from the heart of a schoolkid who was devastated by what happened.

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Without You - dedicated to the Hillsborough 96.

Without you - Life's not worth Living
But still, we must live on

Without you it's hard to stand alone,
But still, we must stand on.

They watched you go, they waved you off as you went to the game.
Little did they know, their lives would never be the same.

The day it was a gorgeous one - so sunny and full of hope
The FA cup was in our reach, we knew our team would cope.

At five past three the horror started as the crowd began to push
We could see you trying to get out, all caught up in the crush

They finally began to realise as one by one you fell
We watched the news in disbelief, and saw you trapped in hell

They carried you onto the pitch but there was nothing they could do,
Some of you were not coming home, already this we knew

The tears flowed, the flowers came and Anfield turned to bloom,
The paper filled with tributes, for them all there wasn't room

There was no divide, citywide we all joined up together
Red and Blue, stood side by side, remembering forever.

Although some of us never spoke to you, we miss you even so
Although some of us didn't know you, we still wanted you to know

This message comes deep from the heart with love and friendship too
To help your grieving families with the hurt they still go through.

They'll never see you at their door, or hear you on the phone
But one thing they can be sure of is 'You'll Never Walk Alone'.
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Please can we make sure that this thread doesn't turn into a slanging match or a place for debate on what happened/who was to blame etc - this thread isn't the place for that, it's just somewhere to respect and remember those that died just following their team.

Thanks,

Kitten.
 
Doesn't get any easier as each year passes. One of the lads I went to school with lost his life there and it shook us all.

The lads I go to the match with are a few years older than me and were all there and all survived. Still affects a lot of them now with a sense of guilt that they survived and others did not.

Imagine what it must be like to go to the match as a group of friends and then something as tragic as that happening. We take our safety for granted going to football matches these days.

Wherever you are, please spare a moment today at 3.06pm to think of those that lost their lives.

JFT96 YNWA
 
Youstolemyname said:
Doesn't get any easier as each year passes.
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:( I remember it like it was yesterday, i nearly went, it would have been my second game, but for some reason we couldnt get a ticket :(
 
Was pretty shocked to hear a woman at works husband and son were there along with a couple other family members and she said her nephew died who was the youngest out of the family.
Repeated what was written above about it never getting any easier
 
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