LOCKERBIE 20 years on

[highlander_Daz]

Can everyone spare a thought for the 270 people of 21 different nationalities that lost their lives during the Lockerbie air disaster of 1988,




Then let us pray that come it may,
(As come it will for a' that,)
That Sense and Worth, o'er a' the earth,
Shall bear the gree, an' a' that.
For a' that, an' a' that,
It's coming yet for a' that,
That Man to Man, the world o'er,
Shall brothers be for a' that.

[Jock Scot]

I remember that awful day well and I cannot forget it.

[highlander_Daz]

heres a bit of background on the disaster

http://www.adf-serials.com/gallery/T...he-Seas?page=1

[McClef]

One cannot forget - I for one knew Lockerbie from before the event and having visited it since I could see that the people carry on with their lives but cannot forget either.

[bowser]

Just a point it was not really a disaster, that implies that it was natural and unavoidable, it was not.
A scumbag terrorist planted a bomb and murdered nearly 300 people.
Think I will keep the rest of my opinion to myself.

[LANCER1562]

To the friends and families of that terrorist attack it surely was disaster.

[Galician]

I think that we can all agree it was a tragedy.

[cessna152towser]

I pass through Lockerbie quite often, and although Sherwood Crescent where the main wing section filled with fuel fell and exploded, has been re-developed, there are other reminders of the event, such as the Dryfesdale Visitor Centre at the local cemetery which is on the Dumfries road and the rural Tundergarth Church, a few miles east of Lockerbie, next to the field where the nose section of the Boeing 747 came to rest. Some of the lighter debris was carried further east by the wind and settled in the uplands to the south of Hawick. It was an event which brought together the USA and Scotland, Scotland's biggest ever mass murder, 270 people, mostly aboard an American plane and a few Scots on the ground. Although there have been other terrorist outrages which have killed even more people, this is the one which I remember most about because it happened so close to home.

Tundergarth Church in September of this year.

[Phil E. Begg]

I cannot forget. I was returning from my first overseas posting, and I flew Pan Am flight 103 from Frankfurt. Just two weeks before the terrorists murdered these innocents, I flew that same route over an unsuspecting Lockerbie; when I heard about it, it really changed me. From that point onwards, it has seemed a personal struggle for me against everything the terrorists stood for, everything that they, and others since, have tried to do.


Phil.

[IRISH]

thank you for posting this, daz.

rare is the day that passes that i don't think of my dearest friend,
anne lindsey otenasek 1/13/67 - 12/21/88

kind regards to all who keep the memories of these victims alive.