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Gladys. Thanks for that Jim, whilst in Australia last year we visited a similar garden in memory of the coach disaster, people from Wigan were victims and my son was at school with the daughter of 2 of them.

liz pettit good photos jim makes you reflect on how lucky we are not to have had anything so dreadful to hae happened to us

Eth nCY x x Went there with Roy & Joyce Just after the desaster Thank you for theclip

Chris n Norman Thanks Jim - another lovely visit with appropriate music. Very moving.

Jim The road to Lockerbie.

Jim From the garden there are sweeping views over the surrounding Scottish countryside. The tree are bowed by the prevailing wind - as though in homage.

Jim When despair for the world grows in me I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water and the great heron feeds... For a time I rest in the grace of the world and am free.

Jim When despair for the world grows in me I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water..... I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief.... I rest in the grace of the world, and am free. Fro the poem The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry.

Jim A lot of the victims were young Americans returning home for the Christmas holidays.

Jim So many lives - mostly young - were lost - how sad.

Jim Nearly all the memorials carry a message for us.

Jim A Lockerbie garden rose.

Jim We should all take this advice to heart - "Lest we forget"

Jim A little touch of America in Scotland.

Jim Quiet and peaceful it is a place to think and reflect on why such things happen.

Jim While on holiday in Scotland, we spent an afternoon visiting the nearby Lockerbie Memorial Garden.

Jim There are no victims buried there, but the memorials make poignant reading.

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