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How do you find the Lockerbie memorial?
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We drove to Lockerbie on our way back to London from Edinburgh. First you head to Lockerbie.
The memorial is not a stand alone place but at the back of one of the regular cemeteries. As a result, people visiting their family graves don't want to be pushed aside by crowds of tourist wielding cameras.
I lurked around and surreptitiously look pictures. It's a very sad place. The graves of individuals are at the front. At the back wall are the photos and names and life stories of the people and the survivors or groups who have funded the memorial.
It was a Pan Am flight. Many Americans. Some not American. Male and female. Young and old.
I knew a Scottish reporter who was first on the scene to report. I had met him on a press tip to France. A mutual fried kept me informed about him. He spent much of the rest of his life following up this one story. He won an award. He died a long while back.
Websites
www.visitscotland.com
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Am_Flight_103
Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer.
How do you find the Lockerbie memorial?
Answers
We drove to Lockerbie on our way back to London from Edinburgh. First you head to Lockerbie.
The memorial is not a stand alone place but at the back of one of the regular cemeteries. As a result, people visiting their family graves don't want to be pushed aside by crowds of tourist wielding cameras.
I lurked around and surreptitiously look pictures. It's a very sad place. The graves of individuals are at the front. At the back wall are the photos and names and life stories of the people and the survivors or groups who have funded the memorial.
It was a Pan Am flight. Many Americans. Some not American. Male and female. Young and old.
I knew a Scottish reporter who was first on the scene to report. I had met him on a press tip to France. A mutual fried kept me informed about him. He spent much of the rest of his life following up this one story. He won an award. He died a long while back.
Wikipedia's article on the Lockerbie Bombing says:
Pan Am Flight 103 was a regularly scheduled Pan Am transatlantic flight from Frankfurt to Detroit via London and New York. On 21 December 1988, N739PA, the aircraft operating the transatlantic leg of the route, was destroyed by a bomb, killing all 243 passengers and 16 crew, in what became known as the Lockerbie bombing.[3] Large sections of the aircraft crashed onto residential areas of Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 11 more people on the ground.
Wikipedia's article on Pan Am says:
Pan American World Airways, known from its founding until 1950 as Pan American Airways[1] and commonly known as Pan Am, was the principal and largest international air carrier in the United States from 1927 until its collapse on December 4, 1991.
Websites
www.visitscotland.com
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Am_Flight_103
Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer.
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