The victims of this tragic disaster are often just listed as names.
But, the link below hammers home how many lives were devastatingly changed by what happened. They weren’t just 97 people. They were other people’s brothers, sisters, fathers, mothers, sons, daughters, partners, spouses, friends, colleagues or the lad who’d carry the local old lady’s shopping home for her.
And, it was 97 lost opportunities. 97 people who all had hopes, dreams, desires, ambitions and aspirations. The link hammers that home too. Particularly with the younger victims. They were just starting out on the journey of life - starting apprenticeships, college courses or going to university.
They all seemed like decent, honest, hardworking, educated and ambitious people. Good eggs. Which make the calculated efforts to smear them as violent, drunken hooligans all the more galling and anger inducing. Something which sadly persists in the here and now.
All victims of one of the biggest miscarriages of justice that that this country has ever seen. May they all never be forgotten and may they all rest in peace.
https://www.theguardian.com/football/ng-interactive/2024/apr/15/hillsborough-disaster-the-97-people-whose-lives-were-cut-short