Lockerbie is a small Scottish town, bypassed by the M74, the major route North on England and Scotland's western Coast. This motorway funnels traffic up to the ancient cities of Glasgow and across to Edinburgh. Carlisle is the last city in England, and Lockerbie is close to the first town after the Scottish border.
December 2018 is the 30 year anniversary of a horrific night that would haunt the lives of thousands of people, including the small population of this Scottish town. Four nights before Christmas, Pan Am Flight 103 was unfortunate enough to be the flight chosen by someone to place a bomb on board. The timing of the explosion, accidentally or intentionally, brought the plane wreckage and its contents down over Lockerbie and surrounding countryside. It so haunted me, a 30 something person who lived on the other side of the world, that I paused on my drive up to Glasgow, four years ago, to stop over night and walk their streets ... and visit the church 3 kms out where the nose cone landed. All 259 passengers and crew did not survive, nor did 11 Scots on the ground. These are my reflections as I wrote it at the time. I came across these notes this week. The last paragraph I have added from the online Wikipedia account, because it says so much about the towns people of Lockerbie, despite their own horror. Photos also follow.
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December 2019
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