AUSTRALIA
The West Australian
COLLEEN EGAN The West Australian
May 4, 2014
Amid the gut-wrenching tales of cruelty and sin at this week’s hearings of the royal commission came a ray of sunshine in the lives of two old boys.
Tony Page and Eddie Cogan had not seen each other for 67 years before spotting one another in the public gallery.
Mr Page, 82, and Mr Cogan, 77, were child migrants, shipped from Britain for a supposedly better life and raised in the harsh environs of the Christian Brothers’ orphanage at Tardun.
The two elderly men repeatedly embraced, eyes misting with tears of joy and warmth.
“We’re brothers,” Mr Page said, grinning.
“That’s right,” his old friend said. “Brothers, here we are, after 67 years. As youngsters we were all brothers because we didn’t have anyone else.”
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