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Family's tears after finding mum's hidden note the day after she died
28.12.2023 - 20:09 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A grieving son sorting through his mum's affairs the day after she died discovered a heartbreaking note.
The handwritten note, penned 40 years earlier, was found tucked away in a file full of paperwork in March 2022. Steve Butterworth, 64, was sorting through his mum's documents alongside his sister when they made the discovery.
The Royal Navy veteran from Ramsbottom told the Manchester Evening News: "We were just going through the paperwork and it was while we were going through that, pressed down in the bottom of one of the files, were two sheets of notepad paper. My sister was in tears and it brought a lump to my throat."
On two pieces of paper was a poem written by his mum, Barbara, who had secretly written it while he was serving in the Falklands in 1982. Titled 'Something's Missing', the poem recounts Steve's childhood bedroom lying empty and quiet while he was away fighting onboard HMS Intrepid aged 22.
HMS Intrepid was heavily involved in the fighting in an area of San Carlos Bay, which became known as 'Bomb Alley'. "We had 25 air attacks on the first day," said Steve, who had joined up with the Royal Navy aged just 16.
"I can remember speaking to one of the PARAs (parachute regiment) that were landing and watching him repack his rucksack. I remember saying to him, 'Rather you than me,' and he just looked at me and he said, 'You see that there?'
"And he pointed to a little shovel on the top of his rucksack. He said, 'I can dig a hole - where are you going to go?' It wasn't until that minute I thought, he's right."
Thinking back to the being "in the thick of it," he added: "You don't get a lot of time to think about it. Your training just kicks in and when the action stations alarm goes you just run to where
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