0:00:41 > 0:00:45When Pan Am Flight 103 exploded in these skies,
0:00:45 > 0:00:49the nose cone came crashing down in this field.
0:00:49 > 0:00:5325 years on, the wreckage has long since been lifted,
0:00:53 > 0:00:58but the aftereffects of the bombing are still being felt,
0:00:58 > 0:01:03reverberating in the lives of those who responded to the emergency
0:01:03 > 0:01:06and those who lost loved ones at Lockerbie.
0:01:06 > 0:01:12This is their story, the story of those who picked up the pieces,
0:01:12 > 0:01:16the story of those left behind to make sense of madness.
0:01:18 > 0:01:21This couple found love in the heartbreak of Lockerbie.
0:01:21 > 0:01:25Most people we tell the story to, they say, "Oh, my God.
0:01:25 > 0:01:28"I've got goose bumps. I can't believe it."
0:01:28 > 0:01:32This mother has only just learned of her loss.
0:01:32 > 0:01:37And it finally dawned on me that it WAS right.
0:01:37 > 0:01:42And I just said, "My God. My baby's dead."
0:01:45 > 0:01:49This woman found it in herself to forgive the bombers.
0:01:49 > 0:01:52I refused to allow myself to become bitter,
0:01:52 > 0:01:54because if I became bitter,
0:01:54 > 0:01:56I would be no different than the terrorist.
0:01:56 > 0:01:58I'd be responding in hate just the way they did.
0:02:01 > 0:02:04It's hard to imagine terrorism tearing apart
0:02:04 > 0:02:07the tranquillity of life in Lockerbie.
0:02:07 > 0:02:09But it did.
0:02:09 > 0:02:11ALL: Three, two, one.
0:02:11 > 0:02:13CHEERING
0:02:17 > 0:02:2225 years on, Christmas is once again a time for celebration here.
0:02:24 > 0:02:28But it's a time for commemoration too, because this is a town
0:02:28 > 0:02:32that will always share its name with a tragedy.
0:02:32 > 0:02:37A tragedy that struck four days before Christmas in 1988.
0:02:37 > 0:02:42# Silent night
0:02:42 > 0:02:46# Holy night... #
0:02:46 > 0:02:49We were sitting round the kitchen table, having supper.
0:02:49 > 0:02:52We heard what was like a loud crack of thunder.
0:02:52 > 0:02:55It was three minutes past seven - I remember the time exactly.
0:02:55 > 0:02:59The noise, I would say... I heard it get louder and louder.
0:02:59 > 0:03:04I look up and there's this enormous explosion.
0:03:04 > 0:03:05I haven't seen anything...
0:03:05 > 0:03:08I don't think anybody had seen anything quite like this.
0:03:08 > 0:03:13It was about 300 foot... It was a sort of fireball.
0:03:13 > 0:03:18# Sleep in heavenly peace... #
0:03:18 > 0:03:20A couple of minutes later, my sister arrived
0:03:20 > 0:03:23to say that there was a plane down in the front field.
0:03:23 > 0:03:27'A Pan American Boeing 747 airliner crashed tonight.
0:03:27 > 0:03:29'It came down on the village of Lockerbie.'
0:03:29 > 0:03:33I'd been to about 30 aircraft crashes from all kinds of things,
0:03:33 > 0:03:35so I thought I'd seen most things.
0:03:37 > 0:03:39'The jet demolished two rows of houses
0:03:39 > 0:03:42'and the small town was left looking like a battlefield.'
0:03:44 > 0:03:47It was mayhem. The place was on fire.
0:03:47 > 0:03:49The first thing I thought was Chapelcross.
0:03:49 > 0:03:53- The nuclear plant?- Yes, nuclear. Yes. And I thought...
0:03:53 > 0:03:56I jumped in the ambulance, obviously doing my job,
0:03:56 > 0:03:59and I thought, "What the hell am I going to do here?"
0:03:59 > 0:04:03# Silent night
0:04:03 > 0:04:07# Holy night... #
0:04:07 > 0:04:09It was like a scene from hell.
0:04:09 > 0:04:14I ran through and I must have seen 40, 50 bodies. Nobody was alive.
0:04:14 > 0:04:16SIREN WAILS
0:04:16 > 0:04:18I'll never forget that scene.
0:04:18 > 0:04:23It was complete and utter devastation of passengers
0:04:23 > 0:04:26from this aircraft strewn across the road.
0:04:26 > 0:04:30Bodies lying in the immediate area in and around the cockpit.
0:04:30 > 0:04:34Pilot and copilot were still in there.
0:04:34 > 0:04:38People on roofs, people in trees, fires, the smell of fuel
0:04:38 > 0:04:40and Christmas presents everywhere.
0:04:40 > 0:04:42I got on the radio and I said,
0:04:42 > 0:04:44"This is happened in Lockerbie,
0:04:44 > 0:04:47"it's in Lockerbie and it's a major disaster."
0:04:47 > 0:04:54# Sleep in heavenly...
0:04:55 > 0:05:03# Peace. #
0:05:06 > 0:05:08In the years since the disaster,
0:05:08 > 0:05:11the damage to Lockerbie has been repaired.
0:05:13 > 0:05:15This town has moved on,
0:05:15 > 0:05:18as have many of those caught up in the carnage.
0:05:18 > 0:05:20But here's a remarkable thing.
0:05:20 > 0:05:25The blast that ripped apart Pan Am Flight 103
0:05:25 > 0:05:27and so many families around the world
0:05:27 > 0:05:31has also been bringing people together ever since.
0:05:31 > 0:05:35Together in grief, in friendship, in remembrance.
0:05:35 > 0:05:38There are even those who fell in love
0:05:38 > 0:05:41because of those who fell from the sky.
0:05:41 > 0:05:46In 1988, George White was an ambulance man in Lockerbie.
0:05:46 > 0:05:50Went back to the garage to get emergency blankets and equipment,
0:05:50 > 0:05:53and that's when I found Suzanne's body...
0:05:53 > 0:05:55right at the door.
0:05:58 > 0:06:01So I checked... There was no way... I mean, I know she was dead,
0:06:01 > 0:06:03but I went through the motion, as you do.
0:06:03 > 0:06:05And...
0:06:05 > 0:06:09Her body was right at the door. There's... There's...
0:06:09 > 0:06:11The garage is there and there's a path
0:06:11 > 0:06:14and there's a plot of grass about three feet wide
0:06:14 > 0:06:17and she was in the grass.
0:06:17 > 0:06:20- You couldn't have missed her? - Oh, no. Oh, no.
0:06:20 > 0:06:25George didn't know it at the time, but the young woman he found
0:06:25 > 0:06:27would change the course of his life.
0:06:27 > 0:06:3122-year-old Suzanne Miazga was a Syracuse University student
0:06:31 > 0:06:34who'd spent a term at their London campus.
0:06:34 > 0:06:38An ocean away, her mother was waiting for her to come home.
0:06:38 > 0:06:42I was at work and my sister-in-law called me and she says,
0:06:42 > 0:06:45"Well, there's been a terrible plane accident."
0:06:45 > 0:06:51I just...walked around with her picture and holding her picture.
0:06:53 > 0:06:57And people were coming to the door and I didn't want them to come.
0:06:57 > 0:07:00I wanted it to be her that came to the door.
0:07:00 > 0:07:04As Anna Marie struggled to come to terms with her loss, in Lockerbie,
0:07:04 > 0:07:08George was struggling to cope with the enormity of what he had faced.
0:07:12 > 0:07:15We were trained to look after people and make them better if possible,
0:07:15 > 0:07:18but we couldn't do a thing.
0:07:18 > 0:07:23There was nothing anybody could do. Nothing. It bothered me no end.
0:07:24 > 0:07:28It was so bad that I saw the specialist doctor and he said,
0:07:28 > 0:07:31"If you felt that way, I think you should finish."
0:07:31 > 0:07:33I did. I just retired there and then.
0:07:33 > 0:07:37So, what effect did events of that night and the days after,
0:07:37 > 0:07:40what effect did that have on you?
0:07:40 > 0:07:44Oh, I cried and cried and cried in my sleep. I just...
0:07:44 > 0:07:46My wife told me I cried every night.
0:07:46 > 0:07:50- You lost your confidence? - Yes. Completely.
0:07:50 > 0:07:53I still have nightmares. I still have nightmares.
0:07:53 > 0:07:56But I remember that I thought long and hard
0:07:56 > 0:07:59about this girl that fell in the grass.
0:07:59 > 0:08:02I thought I should do something.
0:08:02 > 0:08:05So, I planted a rose tree. I had no idea who she was.
0:08:08 > 0:08:12Months later, a visitor to the site where Suzanne's body fell
0:08:12 > 0:08:16gave George her name, and he wrote to Anna Marie.
0:08:16 > 0:08:19"First of all, I'd like to introduce myself.
0:08:19 > 0:08:21"My name is George White
0:08:21 > 0:08:24"and I was leading ambulance man at Lockerbie ambulance station
0:08:24 > 0:08:29"and was on duty that fateful night when so many lost their lives."
0:08:29 > 0:08:33He wrote a beautiful letter that said that he would always
0:08:33 > 0:08:36take care of the spot where she fell
0:08:36 > 0:08:39and he would always remember her.
0:08:39 > 0:08:44What was that like for you, Anna Marie, to receive that letter?
0:08:44 > 0:08:46That was wonderful.
0:08:46 > 0:08:48That somebody cared, you know?
0:08:51 > 0:08:54George's gesture started an enduring friendship.
0:08:54 > 0:08:58Anna Marie decided to meet the man who found her daughter.
0:08:58 > 0:08:59With a friend of Suzanne's,
0:08:59 > 0:09:02she visited Lockerbie for the very first time.
0:09:02 > 0:09:04The people...
0:09:04 > 0:09:06I would meet them on the street,
0:09:06 > 0:09:09they'd come walking toward me when I first went out,
0:09:09 > 0:09:12and they would start crying before they got to me.
0:09:12 > 0:09:16I guess they knew the way I dressed, I was American.
0:09:16 > 0:09:19Bright colours.
0:09:19 > 0:09:21And they were just so nice.
0:09:22 > 0:09:24Cos they just understood.
0:09:24 > 0:09:29They arranged for her to come and visit myself and my wife.
0:09:29 > 0:09:33And she met Elma and they got on like a house on fire.
0:09:33 > 0:09:36We just e-mailed back and forth together
0:09:36 > 0:09:40and then there was a time she didn't e-mail me back.
0:09:40 > 0:09:45In January 2002, George's wife Elma died from cancer.
0:09:48 > 0:09:55After Elma died, she came to Lockerbie and...we met every day.
0:09:55 > 0:09:59But he was like in a depression after Elma died.
0:09:59 > 0:10:04She was a wonderful lady and...and he would...
0:10:04 > 0:10:08he'd go to the cemetery every day.
0:10:09 > 0:10:12Anna Marie was there for him as he had been for her,
0:10:12 > 0:10:16and over the years, their relationship developed.
0:10:16 > 0:10:21When we did meet, obviously we kissed and whatever. Kissed.
0:10:21 > 0:10:24And I realised then that it was something more
0:10:24 > 0:10:27than just a casual friendship.
0:10:27 > 0:10:33So, I remember on the train coming from Lockerbie to Glasgow.
0:10:33 > 0:10:36I said to her, "I'm not making a pass, Anna Marie,
0:10:36 > 0:10:38"but if there's anybody going to take Elma's place,
0:10:38 > 0:10:40"it would have to be you."
0:10:40 > 0:10:45- And that was it.- You said I was at the top of your list.
0:10:45 > 0:10:46The top of the list.
0:10:46 > 0:10:49- Like he had a list! - And it blossomed from there.
0:10:49 > 0:10:51Blossomed from there.
0:10:52 > 0:10:56George has emigrated to America to live with Anna Marie
0:10:56 > 0:10:58in New York State.
0:10:58 > 0:11:01Two people from two different countries
0:11:01 > 0:11:05brought together in love by an act of hate.
0:11:06 > 0:11:10- What does Anna Marie mean to you, George?- I love her very, very much.
0:11:10 > 0:11:15She's... She's special. And generous to a fault.
0:11:15 > 0:11:16What about him to you?
0:11:18 > 0:11:22Well, we've kind of gone through this whole thing together.
0:11:22 > 0:11:27He knows how I feel about Elma's death and, I mean,
0:11:27 > 0:11:32- he knows how it is with me for Suzanne.- Mm-hm.
0:11:32 > 0:11:39He goes to her grave and he... he kisses her stone and just...
0:11:39 > 0:11:42He's a compassionate man.
0:11:45 > 0:11:48In Lockerbie, a replacement rose tree has been planted
0:11:48 > 0:11:50outside the new ambulance station.
0:11:55 > 0:11:58This local play centre was gifted money
0:11:58 > 0:12:00by the families of Suzanne Miazga
0:12:00 > 0:12:03and other young people who were on the plane.
0:12:03 > 0:12:06George's daughter Cilla is in charge here,
0:12:06 > 0:12:08caring for today's children
0:12:08 > 0:12:12in memory of those who died in Lockerbie a generation ago.
0:12:14 > 0:12:17That's... Oh, gosh! You are so strong.
0:12:25 > 0:12:28On this side of the Atlantic,
0:12:28 > 0:12:33the destruction of Pan Am Flight 103 was viewed as an attack on America.
0:12:33 > 0:12:37Never before had so many US citizens lost their lives
0:12:37 > 0:12:42in an act of terrorism, and the Lockerbie bombing would remain
0:12:42 > 0:12:46the deadliest act of terrorism that this country faced
0:12:46 > 0:12:51until 9/11 removed the Twin Towers from the New York skyline.
0:12:52 > 0:12:54In Brooklyn, Helen Engelhardt Hawkins
0:12:54 > 0:12:57honours the memory of her husband, Tony.
0:12:57 > 0:13:01Their son Alan was six years old when his daddy did not come home.
0:13:01 > 0:13:04It was Tony's cousin who called Helen.
0:13:07 > 0:13:12He had to tell me first what had happened. And he...
0:13:12 > 0:13:16As soon as he said that there had been
0:13:16 > 0:13:20a rather serious accident with a plane,
0:13:20 > 0:13:26my body knew that this was extremely serious.
0:13:26 > 0:13:30This sculpture captures the moment Helen heard the news.
0:13:30 > 0:13:35I needed to sit down, because I began to tremble, to shake.
0:13:36 > 0:13:40Uh... I was fr... I was terrified.
0:13:40 > 0:13:45Tony was notorious for arriving at places last minute, you know?
0:13:45 > 0:13:48And everyone was hoping he'd miss the flight,
0:13:48 > 0:13:53but I knew that Tony was dead, because he would have called me...
0:13:55 > 0:13:57..if he had missed the flight.
0:13:57 > 0:13:59I said, "He hasn't called me."
0:14:01 > 0:14:05Helen and Tony used a tape recorder the way other people use a camera,
0:14:05 > 0:14:07to document their lives.
0:14:07 > 0:14:10On the night she heard Tony was dead,
0:14:10 > 0:14:14Helen switched on her microphone and opened her heart to her husband.
0:14:17 > 0:14:24'My joy and my sense of fulfilment has always been anchored with you.
0:14:26 > 0:14:27'Oh, my God.'
0:14:28 > 0:14:35I thought, I've got to record this now, because I'm not going to be
0:14:35 > 0:14:42in this place, in this mind, in this emotional body, again.
0:14:42 > 0:14:45I'm going to change.
0:14:45 > 0:14:48I will never be able to recapture this again.
0:14:48 > 0:14:51I have to record this now, it's... so I did.
0:14:51 > 0:14:54I'm going to start recording now. Are you ready?
0:14:54 > 0:14:59Welcome to Lockerbie. Welcome to Coventry. Welcome to...
0:14:59 > 0:15:03Helen has produced a powerful audio memoir of the first year
0:15:03 > 0:15:06after Tony's death to keep his memory alive.
0:15:06 > 0:15:11The worst terrorist atrocity in aviation history.
0:15:11 > 0:15:16The headquarters of the biggest murder investigation
0:15:16 > 0:15:18in British history.
0:15:18 > 0:15:21I promised Tony that I would do this for him
0:15:21 > 0:15:25and I would do this for Alan, that they would be...
0:15:25 > 0:15:29I would put this down, there would be something that was shaped,
0:15:29 > 0:15:35that came out of this raw experience, so that he would be...
0:15:37 > 0:15:41..honoured in this way, acknowledged in this way.
0:15:41 > 0:15:45The audio book includes the last recording of Tony's voice.
0:15:45 > 0:15:51It's from a cassette recovered from the wreckage of Pan Am Flight 103.
0:15:51 > 0:15:56Tony's explaining air travel to an aunt who has never flown.
0:15:56 > 0:16:00- 'What's it like, crossing the Atlantic?- Well, it's...
0:16:00 > 0:16:05'You're sitting in a nice armchair which is a little bit cramped
0:16:05 > 0:16:07'and you can lean it back.
0:16:07 > 0:16:10'What's that airline called?
0:16:10 > 0:16:13- 'Pan American. - Oh, Pan American, isn't it?- Yes.
0:16:13 > 0:16:18- 'When you think of the millions of people that fly.- 400 people...
0:16:19 > 0:16:24- '..36,000 or 37,000 feet high all having dinners.- Yes.
0:16:24 > 0:16:28TONY LAUGHS 'It's really very funny.'
0:16:28 > 0:16:34He had no way of knowing how his next flight would end.
0:16:37 > 0:16:40Suzanne Miazga was patient, kind and enthusiastic.
0:16:40 > 0:16:43She was a graduate student in the school of...
0:16:43 > 0:16:4635 of those killed on Pan Am Flight 103
0:16:46 > 0:16:51were students from Syracuse University in New York State.
0:16:51 > 0:16:54It holds remembrance events every year.
0:16:54 > 0:16:5835 students are funded to study in memory of those who died.
0:16:58 > 0:17:02There are a further two scholarships for students from Lockerbie.
0:17:08 > 0:17:10At the railway station,
0:17:10 > 0:17:14Colin Dorrance is waiting for his daughter Claire.
0:17:14 > 0:17:16She's on the train from Glasgow,
0:17:16 > 0:17:18home from university for her birthday.
0:17:20 > 0:17:21Hello. Happy birthday.
0:17:21 > 0:17:24Thank you.
0:17:24 > 0:17:27Happy birthday, Claire. There you go.
0:17:27 > 0:17:31Claire has just turned 19 and spent much of the past year
0:17:31 > 0:17:35as a student at Syracuse, having the time of her life.
0:17:38 > 0:17:43I don't think any experience will ever compare, really,
0:17:43 > 0:17:45it was the making of me, I think.
0:17:45 > 0:17:47I haven't felt, erm...
0:17:50 > 0:17:52..as happy as I did when I was over there.
0:17:52 > 0:17:55By the time he had turned 19,
0:17:55 > 0:17:59Colin Dorrance was a police officer who'd already faced the death
0:17:59 > 0:18:04and destruction that Pan Am Flight 103 brought to Lockerbie.
0:18:04 > 0:18:10Dad and daughter could hardly have had more different experiences
0:18:10 > 0:18:11at the same age.
0:18:11 > 0:18:17I remember handling a passenger in the mortuary
0:18:17 > 0:18:21and then the following night, in the stint in the property centre,
0:18:21 > 0:18:25seeing some of that passenger's effects.
0:18:25 > 0:18:30It was a diary in particular that had, you know,
0:18:30 > 0:18:35plans in it for days that they were not there for and...
0:18:36 > 0:18:39..I became conscious that I didn't want to join the dots.
0:18:39 > 0:18:42I kind of wanted to keep detached.
0:18:42 > 0:18:44I didn't involve myself
0:18:44 > 0:18:49in knowing too much of the back story of the passengers.
0:18:49 > 0:18:52That was a conscious decision on my part,
0:18:52 > 0:18:55but I felt I'd dealt with enough at the time.
0:18:55 > 0:19:0025 years on, Colin is ready to revisit his past.
0:19:00 > 0:19:03With the man who took charge of the original police investigation,
0:19:03 > 0:19:07he's gone back to Lockerbie Town Hall which was
0:19:07 > 0:19:11used as a makeshift mortuary in the days after the bombing.
0:19:15 > 0:19:19- Well, what a change, Colin. - Aye.
0:19:19 > 0:19:20It just brings it all back, though.
0:19:22 > 0:19:26I remember on the night, it would be nearly midnight.
0:19:26 > 0:19:30I was at the Bridge Street entrance and a farmer drew up
0:19:30 > 0:19:34- having come down the Bridge Street Road...- Yes.
0:19:34 > 0:19:38..with aircraft artefacts, chutes and pieces of metal,
0:19:38 > 0:19:43basically, and me and a colleague helped him
0:19:43 > 0:19:47with the property off the back of the pick-up into the Bridge Street
0:19:47 > 0:19:51entrance and almost, it seemed to me as I recollect it,
0:19:51 > 0:19:53an afterthought, I thought
0:19:53 > 0:19:58he had a son or a child in the front seat.
0:19:58 > 0:20:02It turned out it was actually one of the young passengers
0:20:02 > 0:20:08and that young body was brought into the hall as the first and from
0:20:08 > 0:20:12that point on, the hustle and bustle fell away, with the realisation...
0:20:12 > 0:20:15- I know. - ..this is what we're dealing with.
0:20:15 > 0:20:19And let's be blunt, you had only a matter of months' service
0:20:19 > 0:20:21at that time as a police officer.
0:20:21 > 0:20:26It does send a shiver through the spine in some senses.
0:20:26 > 0:20:30I think it's important that we do talk about these things,
0:20:30 > 0:20:34because it was a very integral part of what we had to do.
0:20:37 > 0:20:42Lockerbie happened six years before Claire Dorrance was born.
0:20:42 > 0:20:44She's grown up with the story, but only
0:20:44 > 0:20:49when she went away to study did the magnitude of the disaster hit home.
0:20:49 > 0:20:52Syracuse was an emotional time.
0:20:55 > 0:20:59Erm...incredibly emotional because I was 17 when I left, so...
0:21:01 > 0:21:04First of all the parallel with Dad being 17, 18
0:21:04 > 0:21:08when he dealt with that disaster was incredibly special.
0:21:08 > 0:21:13All of the sudden it comes up to remembrance week and...
0:21:14 > 0:21:17..you've learnt so much about the victims that you feel you know them,
0:21:17 > 0:21:20like when you meeting their families and you're talking to their families
0:21:20 > 0:21:22and you realise that these are real people
0:21:22 > 0:21:24and you're walking the streets that they walked.
0:21:24 > 0:21:27All of a sudden it kind of hit me that...
0:21:31 > 0:21:33It's really hard to express that...
0:21:35 > 0:21:38..here I was having the best year of my life
0:21:38 > 0:21:40and such a positive experience...
0:21:41 > 0:21:45..and it had come from such heartache and tragedy.
0:21:45 > 0:21:48For the first time, Claire felt she understood
0:21:48 > 0:21:51the enormity of what her father had faced.
0:21:52 > 0:21:55I remember there was one Skype conversation where...
0:21:57 > 0:22:00..I kind of got really sentimental
0:22:00 > 0:22:04and emotional and just kind of said to Dad, you know...
0:22:05 > 0:22:10It's really kind of grown my respect for him and given me
0:22:10 > 0:22:14so much more, like, understanding into his character
0:22:15 > 0:22:18..and just really, um...
0:22:20 > 0:22:26- Did it change your relationship with him, Claire?- Yes. Um...
0:22:31 > 0:22:36We had a few really, really rough years as a family,
0:22:36 > 0:22:41a few years ago and it really took its toll
0:22:41 > 0:22:44on my dad and I's relationship...
0:22:45 > 0:22:48..and then going to Syracuse gave us
0:22:48 > 0:22:51something to bond over and grow closer over.
0:22:51 > 0:22:54- You're closer now? - Yes, 100%. Mm-hm.
0:22:56 > 0:22:59I suppose that garden would look better in the summer,
0:22:59 > 0:23:02- it was always at the end of the winter there, eh?- Mm-hm.
0:23:07 > 0:23:13Melanie Daniels was never able to get close to her dad, Bill,
0:23:13 > 0:23:15because he was on the plane.
0:23:15 > 0:23:18In the Pan Am 103 archives at Syracuse,
0:23:18 > 0:23:21with her mum, Kathy, she's looking at the collection of items
0:23:21 > 0:23:23held in memory of her father.
0:23:25 > 0:23:30- You wanted to see the tools, though. - Yes.- OK.
0:23:30 > 0:23:34Bill was a big one for woodworking tools.
0:23:34 > 0:23:37And this looks kind of dangerous, though.
0:23:37 > 0:23:42How does it make you feel, sweetie, to see all these things,
0:23:42 > 0:23:48the tools and the things that your dad used to like to...
0:23:48 > 0:23:50to play with?
0:23:50 > 0:23:53MELANIE CHUCKLES It makes him real.
0:23:53 > 0:23:55- Tangible.- Tangible.
0:23:55 > 0:23:56Yeah.
0:23:58 > 0:24:00Cos you were so young.
0:24:03 > 0:24:07Melanie was just two years old when he died.
0:24:08 > 0:24:11- So who's the beautiful baby? - That would be me!- Uh-huh.
0:24:11 > 0:24:12What age were you there?
0:24:12 > 0:24:17- Um, I think one, somewhere around one.- You're just a little tot.
0:24:17 > 0:24:21- And there you are on the back of Daddy's bike.- Yes.
0:24:23 > 0:24:25That was always my spot.
0:24:25 > 0:24:30These precious pictures are in an album Melanie's mum made for her.
0:24:30 > 0:24:32It tells the story of Melanie's life
0:24:32 > 0:24:36before and since the Lockerbie bombing.
0:24:36 > 0:24:39"Melanie's dad, Bill Daniels, boarded a flight from London to New York.
0:24:39 > 0:24:43"He was coming home for Christmas from a four-day business trip,
0:24:43 > 0:24:46"Coming home to his wife and three children."
0:24:46 > 0:24:52I couldn't remember anything, but I was real focused on trying to...
0:24:52 > 0:24:53connect somehow.
0:24:53 > 0:24:56- Does it bother you that you don't remember him?- A lot.
0:24:58 > 0:25:01Melanie grew up going to memorial events
0:25:01 > 0:25:04for a man she felt she did not know.
0:25:04 > 0:25:07Aged nine, she was in Arlington National Cemetery
0:25:07 > 0:25:10when President Clinton dedicated a cairn.
0:25:10 > 0:25:13BAND PLAYS U.S NATIONAL ANTHEM
0:25:21 > 0:25:26Each of its 270 Lockerbie stones tells of a loss beyond measure.
0:25:28 > 0:25:30There's a block for every victim,
0:25:30 > 0:25:33to make sure all who died are never forgotten.
0:25:34 > 0:25:37I didn't...couldn't remember him,
0:25:37 > 0:25:40and it made it kind of uncomfortable, because I would sit there
0:25:40 > 0:25:43and I would feel kind of like I was supposed to cry or something,
0:25:43 > 0:25:46you know, like I'm supposed to be reacting
0:25:46 > 0:25:50in more of a way, because everybody else is,
0:25:50 > 0:25:53but I'm not necessarily feeling what they feel.
0:25:53 > 0:25:58You know, I'm...I'm frustrated but I'm not grieving.
0:25:58 > 0:26:01I can never kind of confess that to anybody!
0:26:01 > 0:26:04BAGPIPES PLAY "Amazing Grace"
0:26:07 > 0:26:10These days, Melanie is one of those responsible for organising
0:26:10 > 0:26:13the annual commemoration at Arlington
0:26:13 > 0:26:16on behalf of the American relatives of Pan Am 103 victims.
0:26:17 > 0:26:21At some of the most solemn times of our memorial services,
0:26:21 > 0:26:23a plane goes over, and everybody looks up,
0:26:23 > 0:26:25and it's a great big plane
0:26:25 > 0:26:28and it looks a lot like it could have been Pan Am 103.
0:26:28 > 0:26:33- And everybody takes a... - Yeah.- ..a deep breath.
0:26:33 > 0:26:35The memorial service itself
0:26:35 > 0:26:38is always emotional and difficult and everything,
0:26:38 > 0:26:43but the period of time when I could find out things...
0:26:43 > 0:26:46You know, cos it was already the topic of conversation,
0:26:46 > 0:26:50and so it wasn't like I was bringing up something painful.
0:26:51 > 0:26:56Melanie lives in Washington, DC, where she works as a dog walker.
0:26:56 > 0:27:00It's a temporary job Melanie took up when she dropped out of college
0:27:00 > 0:27:04because she was struggling with depression.
0:27:04 > 0:27:06How much of that do you think
0:27:06 > 0:27:09is fuelled by your own loss in Lockerbie?
0:27:09 > 0:27:13It's complicated, but, um...
0:27:13 > 0:27:15that's definitely...
0:27:15 > 0:27:17been part of it.
0:27:17 > 0:27:22The fact that I couldn't find any connections or anything
0:27:22 > 0:27:25kept, I don't know, kind of adding to the feeling.
0:27:25 > 0:27:27You're going to get dog slobber on your hands!
0:27:28 > 0:27:33Melanie says her work with dogs like Chuck and with the Pan Am 103 group
0:27:33 > 0:27:38is helping to improve her health, and she's hopeful about the future.
0:27:39 > 0:27:44I'd like to be married and have kids and, you know, a dog!
0:27:46 > 0:27:52But, um... But, yeah, I would like to be working
0:27:52 > 0:27:54in international aid in some other country.
0:27:54 > 0:27:59But I'd like to feel like I was improving people's lives
0:27:59 > 0:28:03and working towards keeping the same thing from happening over again.
0:28:04 > 0:28:0825 years after the bombing that deprived Melanie of her dad,
0:28:08 > 0:28:11she's determined to redeem her loss.
0:28:11 > 0:28:15And Melanie is not the only Lockerbie relative to feel that way.
0:28:18 > 0:28:22Lisa Gibson founded an aid agency of her own
0:28:22 > 0:28:25as a direct result of losing her brother at Lockerbie.
0:28:26 > 0:28:30It had been about two years since I'd seen him in person.
0:28:30 > 0:28:33I was very much looking forward to seeing him.
0:28:33 > 0:28:38US Marine Ken Gibson was heading home from Germany on Christmas leave
0:28:38 > 0:28:39when disaster struck.
0:28:42 > 0:28:45I spent a very...
0:28:45 > 0:28:47deep time in despair,
0:28:47 > 0:28:51really wrestling through why something like this would happen.
0:28:51 > 0:28:54When you're realising that there was someone in the world
0:28:54 > 0:28:59that did this intentionally and essentially stole your family member
0:28:59 > 0:29:02and the family member of 270 victims,
0:29:02 > 0:29:06to me, it just was very difficult to reconcile personally in my heart
0:29:06 > 0:29:08that someone would do that.
0:29:08 > 0:29:15Is it fair to say that the events of the 21st of December 1988
0:29:15 > 0:29:16changed the course of your own life?
0:29:16 > 0:29:20Absolutely. I mean, it's completely changed the course
0:29:20 > 0:29:22of what I would have chosen for my own path.
0:29:22 > 0:29:24But I made a decision, too.
0:29:24 > 0:29:26I made a decision that I was going to
0:29:26 > 0:29:28try to find a way to overcome evil with good,
0:29:28 > 0:29:30and that has been something
0:29:30 > 0:29:34that I never would have envisioned going as far and as long as it has.
0:29:36 > 0:29:40It started with an extraordinary letter to Abdelbaset Al Megrahi,
0:29:40 > 0:29:45the only man ever convicted of blowing up Pan Am Flight 103.
0:29:45 > 0:29:48By this time, he was in prison in Scotland.
0:29:49 > 0:29:52It was probably one of the simplest and shortest letters
0:29:52 > 0:29:54I've ever written, really.
0:29:54 > 0:29:56I just shared a little bit about who I was,
0:29:56 > 0:30:01that I'd lost my brother on the Lockerbie bombing and said,
0:30:01 > 0:30:03"Ultimately, only God knows if you're really responsible,
0:30:03 > 0:30:06"but either way, I need to forgive you".
0:30:06 > 0:30:09And that was basically it.
0:30:09 > 0:30:13To Lisa's surprise, she received this reply, in which Megrahi says,
0:30:13 > 0:30:15"It made me very sad to learn
0:30:15 > 0:30:18"that you have lost one of your loved ones".
0:30:18 > 0:30:20He also denied responsibility,
0:30:20 > 0:30:24saying he'd been convicted on false and unsound evidence.
0:30:27 > 0:30:29So in some ways it was helpful,
0:30:29 > 0:30:32but in other ways it left me a little bit more in conflict,
0:30:32 > 0:30:36because it was hard for me to be angry...
0:30:36 > 0:30:39at someone that wrote such a compassionate note to me.
0:30:40 > 0:30:44Lisa also called to see Libya's ambassador to the United States.
0:30:44 > 0:30:47She offered to set up development projects in Libya,
0:30:47 > 0:30:50the country that's held responsible for the bombing.
0:30:50 > 0:30:55Ali Aujali helped make this happen and has become Lisa's friend.
0:30:58 > 0:31:01Just to be able to help the Libyan people
0:31:01 > 0:31:05and to go there and work there has been incredibly meaningful to me.
0:31:05 > 0:31:08To be able to spend time with people that,
0:31:08 > 0:31:10you know, um...
0:31:10 > 0:31:13just have gone through their own trials and tribulations.
0:31:13 > 0:31:16Lisa raised money for Libyan children
0:31:16 > 0:31:18suffering under the Gaddafi regime
0:31:18 > 0:31:22and has been teaching conflict resolution in Benghazi.
0:31:24 > 0:31:25You are one...
0:31:25 > 0:31:29The first one from the victims of the families of the Pan Am
0:31:29 > 0:31:34who came to say, "I'm ready to help, "I'm ready to forgive,
0:31:34 > 0:31:36I'm ready to help the Libyan people."
0:31:36 > 0:31:38That's very well appreciated.
0:31:38 > 0:31:39Good to meet you, sir.
0:31:39 > 0:31:42Lisa's reconciliation work did not end there.
0:31:42 > 0:31:46Ali Aujali arranged for her to meet Colonel Gaddafi in New York.
0:31:46 > 0:31:51Not content with forgiving the man jailed for blowing up her brother,
0:31:51 > 0:31:54Lisa decided to personally forgive
0:31:54 > 0:31:56the man many believe ordered the attack.
0:31:57 > 0:32:00I refused to allow myself to become bitter,
0:32:00 > 0:32:02because if I became bitter,
0:32:02 > 0:32:04I would be no different from the terrorists,
0:32:04 > 0:32:06I'd be responding in hate, just the way they did.
0:32:06 > 0:32:10'Lisa's high-profile acts of forgiveness
0:32:10 > 0:32:14'are incomprehensible to some Lockerbie relatives.
0:32:14 > 0:32:16'Helen Engelhardt Hawkins
0:32:16 > 0:32:20'followed the prosecution of the two Libyans accused of the bombing,
0:32:20 > 0:32:23'Al Amin Khalifa Fhimah and Abdelbaset Al Megrahi.
0:32:25 > 0:32:26Could you ever forgive?
0:32:26 > 0:32:28No.
0:32:31 > 0:32:35When I went to the trial and looked at Fhimah and Megrahi,
0:32:35 > 0:32:38and their families, sitting in front of them,
0:32:38 > 0:32:40I felt nothing.
0:32:40 > 0:32:42I didn't feel hatred,
0:32:42 > 0:32:44I didn't feel fury, I just felt...
0:32:46 > 0:32:47But...
0:32:47 > 0:32:50forgive them?
0:32:50 > 0:32:51The people that do this?
0:32:51 > 0:32:54Why should I forgive them?
0:32:54 > 0:32:59In 2001, a Scottish court sitting in the Netherlands acquitted Fhimah.
0:32:59 > 0:33:03Co-accused Megrahi was found guilty of mass murder
0:33:03 > 0:33:05and jailed for life.
0:33:05 > 0:33:07The conviction was upheld on appeal.
0:33:10 > 0:33:13In 2009, Megrahi dropped a second appeal.
0:33:14 > 0:33:18That summer, he was granted compassionate release from prison
0:33:18 > 0:33:21having been diagnosed with terminal cancer.
0:33:23 > 0:33:27He died at home in Libya almost three years later,
0:33:27 > 0:33:30still protesting his innocence.
0:33:30 > 0:33:32Some British relatives of Lockerbie victims
0:33:32 > 0:33:36are convinced Megrahi was wrongly convicted.
0:33:36 > 0:33:38Most American relatives
0:33:38 > 0:33:40are equally convinced of his guilt.
0:33:41 > 0:33:44Those who gathered the evidence against Megrahi,
0:33:44 > 0:33:46including the FBI and the Scottish police,
0:33:46 > 0:33:49are still pursuing other suspects
0:33:49 > 0:33:52and the man who headed the FBI for the last 12 years
0:33:52 > 0:33:55is confident others will be brought to justice.
0:33:57 > 0:34:01'We have FBI agents who are working full-time'
0:34:01 > 0:34:05to track down every lead, as we have since it occurred 25 years ago
0:34:05 > 0:34:08and my expectation is that,
0:34:08 > 0:34:12continuously, we'll obtain additional information,
0:34:12 > 0:34:14perhaps additional witnesses
0:34:14 > 0:34:18and that others will be charged with their participation in this.
0:34:18 > 0:34:20Even after all these years?
0:34:20 > 0:34:21Yes.
0:34:21 > 0:34:24We don't forget.
0:34:24 > 0:34:25We do not forget.
0:34:25 > 0:34:27And by that, I mean the FBI, the Department of Justice -
0:34:27 > 0:34:29we do not forget.
0:34:29 > 0:34:32Lisa Gibson has not forgotten either,
0:34:32 > 0:34:35but, for her, finding a way to forgive
0:34:35 > 0:34:38has been an essential part of her own recovery.
0:34:39 > 0:34:41For 25 years...
0:34:43 > 0:34:45..I've been identified as
0:34:45 > 0:34:48"Lisa who lost her brother in the Lockerbie bombing",
0:34:48 > 0:34:54and that's a lot to carry and a lot to have to hold.
0:34:54 > 0:34:58And to see your identity so tied up into something so tragic.
0:34:58 > 0:35:03And I don't regret the mission I've been on
0:35:03 > 0:35:07and the journey I've been on, cos I think it's been very meaningful
0:35:07 > 0:35:08but, at the same time...
0:35:10 > 0:35:12..I'm ready to move on.
0:35:14 > 0:35:19'Lisa intends to be at a 25th anniversary memorial service.
0:35:19 > 0:35:22'It may well be the last one she attends.
0:35:22 > 0:35:26'Ceremonies are planned at Arlington, Syracuse and London
0:35:26 > 0:35:28'and in Lockerbie itself.'
0:35:32 > 0:35:36Lockerbie Academy is proud of its links with Syracuse.
0:35:36 > 0:35:39It will soon have sent 50 pupils to study there.
0:35:39 > 0:35:42'I can assure you that the people of Lockerbie
0:35:42 > 0:35:44'will never, ever forget.
0:35:44 > 0:35:48We will never forget what happened over our skies 25 years ago.
0:35:48 > 0:35:51'Lockerbie's head teacher, Graham Herbert,
0:35:51 > 0:35:54'was among the Scots attending the university's remembrance ceremony
0:35:54 > 0:35:56'for the 25th anniversary.'
0:35:58 > 0:36:01'Many relatives find comfort here every year,
0:36:01 > 0:36:06'but the mother of one student victim has never been before.'
0:36:08 > 0:36:10Kenneth Bissett was a charming man
0:36:10 > 0:36:13with a wonderful sense of humour and a love for jazz.
0:36:13 > 0:36:16Ken Bissett was one of the Syracuse students
0:36:16 > 0:36:18returning from a term in London,
0:36:18 > 0:36:23but it was only this year that his mother found out that he'd died.
0:36:23 > 0:36:25I lay this rose on behalf of Kenneth Bissett
0:36:25 > 0:36:27and act forward in his memory.
0:36:28 > 0:36:33I'm still in the semi-numb part, I think,
0:36:33 > 0:36:38um... that you hit right after you lose a loved one.
0:36:38 > 0:36:41Because, even though...
0:36:41 > 0:36:45I didn't have him with me physically,
0:36:45 > 0:36:47he was always in my heart.
0:36:47 > 0:36:52I think I thought of him pretty much every day, close to it.
0:36:52 > 0:36:55He was my child
0:36:55 > 0:36:58and I gave him as a gift.
0:36:58 > 0:37:02I gave Ken up for adoption at birth
0:37:02 > 0:37:05and, even though I was told his name,
0:37:05 > 0:37:07I never looked for him
0:37:07 > 0:37:09because I'd given my word.
0:37:10 > 0:37:14It was after she was widowed that Carol decided to look for her son.
0:37:14 > 0:37:17In April this year, she went online.
0:37:19 > 0:37:21I typed his name in
0:37:21 > 0:37:24and it brought me to a website
0:37:24 > 0:37:27and I clicked on the website
0:37:27 > 0:37:30and there was the remembrance page.
0:37:32 > 0:37:35And I looked and I said, "My God, it's him."
0:37:35 > 0:37:37It was his birth date,
0:37:37 > 0:37:39he looked just like my dad.
0:37:41 > 0:37:43And I looked in the mirror and I said, "He looks like me."
0:37:45 > 0:37:48I called my sister in and I said,
0:37:48 > 0:37:51"But why are they only showing a part of his life?
0:37:51 > 0:37:56"They've got December 19th 1967,
0:37:56 > 0:37:59"but then they've got December 21st 1988.
0:38:00 > 0:38:02"That's not right."
0:38:02 > 0:38:05And it finally dawned on me
0:38:05 > 0:38:07that it was right.
0:38:07 > 0:38:10And I just said, "My God...
0:38:10 > 0:38:12"my baby's dead."
0:38:15 > 0:38:18And I finally realised
0:38:18 > 0:38:21that it was the Lockerbie 103,
0:38:21 > 0:38:23Pan Am 103...
0:38:25 > 0:38:27..remembrance site.
0:38:27 > 0:38:32And I said, "Oh, my God, he was on that plane."
0:38:32 > 0:38:36270 people died in that tragedy.
0:38:38 > 0:38:43And one of those happened to be the only child I ever had
0:38:43 > 0:38:46and I didn't even know it until last April.
0:38:50 > 0:38:53So it became a kind of a double tragedy
0:38:53 > 0:38:57in that I found him and I lost him in the same day.
0:39:01 > 0:39:03Carol did not feel able to keep her baby
0:39:03 > 0:39:07because, as the unmarried daughter of a high-school principal,
0:39:07 > 0:39:10it would have been socially unacceptable to do so.
0:39:12 > 0:39:15In fact, all my life, it's been the most painful decision
0:39:15 > 0:39:17I ever had to make.
0:39:17 > 0:39:19It's still not easy,
0:39:19 > 0:39:22it's not easy watching your sister,
0:39:22 > 0:39:25who always wanted to have a lot of children,
0:39:25 > 0:39:27give up her first-born.
0:39:29 > 0:39:30Only born.
0:39:30 > 0:39:32And, it turned out, only born.
0:39:33 > 0:39:38Carol's sister, Sandi, is supporting her through her grief.
0:39:38 > 0:39:41Oh, wouldn't Daddy have loved to have met him?
0:39:41 > 0:39:44Oh. Oh, yes.
0:39:44 > 0:39:47Every year for 25 years,
0:39:47 > 0:39:53having a student coming in...
0:39:54 > 0:39:56- ..in your name.- Yep.
0:39:59 > 0:40:01And living forward.
0:40:06 > 0:40:08We love you, sweetheart.
0:40:10 > 0:40:13And we wish you were here in person.
0:40:16 > 0:40:19And he would have looked for you.
0:40:19 > 0:40:21I know he would have.
0:40:21 > 0:40:24I think so. It was so good to find out he knew.
0:40:26 > 0:40:27Yes.
0:40:28 > 0:40:32It turns out the couple who adopted Ken did tell him
0:40:32 > 0:40:35they were not his biological parents.
0:40:35 > 0:40:36They have since died,
0:40:36 > 0:40:41but left a detailed account of Ken's childhood in the Syracuse archives.
0:40:42 > 0:40:46I saw his baby picture for the first time yesterday.
0:40:46 > 0:40:50I had never seen him, except wrapped up in a yellow blanket...
0:40:52 > 0:40:57..on the day we left the hospital, so I never saw him, never held him.
0:40:59 > 0:41:01And now I get to grieve for him.
0:41:03 > 0:41:05Look at the hair.
0:41:05 > 0:41:07SHE LAUGHS
0:41:07 > 0:41:12- It's just like mine and it's just like Grandpa's.- Grandpa's!
0:41:12 > 0:41:14- The eyebrows?- I think so.
0:41:16 > 0:41:21Ken Bissett celebrated his 21st birthday two days before
0:41:21 > 0:41:24he took his seat on the flight that would end his life.
0:41:24 > 0:41:29The more Carol hears about him, the harder she's finding her loss.
0:41:30 > 0:41:32In a way, I'm going backwards...
0:41:33 > 0:41:37..because the getting to know him makes it sharper...
0:41:39 > 0:41:42..makes the regret deeper.
0:41:42 > 0:41:44He was an incredible artist.
0:41:44 > 0:41:49I saw comic strips that he drew when he was 11 years old.
0:41:50 > 0:41:52In the last year of his life,
0:41:52 > 0:41:57Ken also drew this picture of a plane plummeting to the ground.
0:41:57 > 0:42:01His own death, in strangely similar circumstances,
0:42:01 > 0:42:03meant that he would never search for the woman
0:42:03 > 0:42:05who brought him into the world.
0:42:05 > 0:42:08That was a reunion Carol dreamt of.
0:42:08 > 0:42:11There was always the hope
0:42:11 > 0:42:15and dream that, some day,
0:42:15 > 0:42:18there would come a knock on the door and I would open it...
0:42:20 > 0:42:26..and there would be this tall, handsome gentleman saying, "Hi.
0:42:26 > 0:42:27"I guess you're my mom."
0:42:30 > 0:42:32And when I saw that...
0:42:35 > 0:42:40..on my computer, it was like somebody had turned the light out,
0:42:40 > 0:42:43because that hope was gone.
0:42:43 > 0:42:48It is just a real regret...
0:42:50 > 0:42:53..that I'll never, in this life, see him.
0:42:57 > 0:42:59Because she gave up her son,
0:42:59 > 0:43:03Carol has not felt like a proper parent and that has hurt.
0:43:07 > 0:43:10I have carried that stigma around
0:43:10 > 0:43:15and I didn't even realise it until today,
0:43:15 > 0:43:19when I was able to sit there with the other parents.
0:43:21 > 0:43:24It was something and my sister kept saying,
0:43:24 > 0:43:26"You need to go up there with them."
0:43:26 > 0:43:28I said, "I don't think I belong",
0:43:28 > 0:43:31and she said "Yes, you do."
0:43:31 > 0:43:37And so I went and one of the ladies, she said, "Oh, sit here."
0:43:37 > 0:43:40That lady was Melanie Daniels's mum, Kathy.
0:43:43 > 0:43:48It's such an amazing feeling for me to be included
0:43:48 > 0:43:53and to kind of feel like Ken and all the other kids are...
0:43:55 > 0:44:00..guiding this whole thing. It's very surreal.
0:44:13 > 0:44:17Those on board Pan Am Flight 103 didn't stand a chance,
0:44:17 > 0:44:20but many on the ground escaped death by a whisker.
0:44:21 > 0:44:26In 1988, David Gould lived in Lockerbie's Park Place.
0:44:26 > 0:44:29We're just approaching the house that I lived in
0:44:29 > 0:44:32on the night of the disaster itself.
0:44:33 > 0:44:37We heard something very large bounce off the roof
0:44:37 > 0:44:42and I charged through to that room there and saw the oxygen cylinder
0:44:42 > 0:44:47came down and bounced and spun in the road here, hissing.
0:44:47 > 0:44:50Much worse had crashed to earth along the street
0:44:50 > 0:44:52and David rushed to help.
0:44:52 > 0:44:55I was running up the road towards Rosebank Crescent...
0:44:57 > 0:44:58..and it wasn't, in fact,
0:44:58 > 0:45:03until I encountered a young man wearing jeans lying in the road.
0:45:05 > 0:45:11And looking at other casualties, they were also in civilian clothing.
0:45:11 > 0:45:17It began to dawn on people, this was a civilian plane that had come down.
0:45:18 > 0:45:23All through these gardens here was just the fuselage
0:45:23 > 0:45:25- of the plane itself.- Right.
0:45:26 > 0:45:33There were seats, there were suitcases, Christmas parcels
0:45:33 > 0:45:35and, obviously, a number of fatalities.
0:45:37 > 0:45:42As a local social worker, David was tasked with evacuating residents
0:45:42 > 0:45:45and helping vulnerable people in the days ahead.
0:45:45 > 0:45:49He was part of an army of local officials and volunteers
0:45:49 > 0:45:52working alongside emergency teams from across the country.
0:45:55 > 0:45:59Somebody has described it as the nerve centre of the enquiry.
0:45:59 > 0:46:02- This is, at that time, the local school.- Yeah.
0:46:03 > 0:46:07The man who headed the police investigation is still struck
0:46:07 > 0:46:10by the kindness he found amidst the chaos.
0:46:11 > 0:46:17Human nature has a habit of showing its best side
0:46:17 > 0:46:20when confronted with the worst trauma imaginable.
0:46:21 > 0:46:25And that's what happened here in this town.
0:46:25 > 0:46:28People coming and just saying, "Look, can I give blood?"
0:46:29 > 0:46:33There was no survivors, but they wanted to be there to give blood.
0:46:33 > 0:46:37They came in with cakes and biscuits and you name it.
0:46:37 > 0:46:41People who just earnestly, passionately wanted to help.
0:46:43 > 0:46:47Search and rescue specialist David Whalley rushed to Lockerbie
0:46:47 > 0:46:49with the Royal Air Force.
0:46:49 > 0:46:52He, too, will never forget the way people pulled together.
0:46:53 > 0:46:56I think people should know what the rescue teams did here,
0:46:56 > 0:46:59what the local people did, for months looking after people.
0:46:59 > 0:47:02This was Scotland's tragedy but it was also, I think,
0:47:02 > 0:47:04one of Scotland's finest hours
0:47:04 > 0:47:07and days, what happened here.
0:47:07 > 0:47:09I think the story should be told.
0:47:09 > 0:47:12It's not nice, it's not good and we're not trying to do it
0:47:12 > 0:47:16for any other reason but there was so many people affected by this.
0:47:18 > 0:47:20David paid a high price for his involvement -
0:47:20 > 0:47:25post-traumatic stress disorder from which it took years to recover.
0:47:26 > 0:47:29David Gould also suffered a breakdown.
0:47:32 > 0:47:36Not only did he witness the horrors of Lockerbie first-hand,
0:47:36 > 0:47:39he also escaped death by the narrowest of margins.
0:47:42 > 0:47:46Our house was only missed by one tenth of a second.
0:47:46 > 0:47:50That's how long it would have taken for the part of the fuselage
0:47:50 > 0:47:53to have veered in a different direction.
0:47:54 > 0:47:57- It's not a long time, is it? - It's not a long time.
0:47:58 > 0:48:01As I say, by one tenth of a second, I'm still here.
0:48:02 > 0:48:04Friends thought David WAS dead,
0:48:04 > 0:48:07because one of the passengers on the plane
0:48:07 > 0:48:09had exactly the same name as him.
0:48:09 > 0:48:11That touched David deeply.
0:48:13 > 0:48:17I went through a lot of the survivor feelings afterwards.
0:48:17 > 0:48:22The feelings of guilt, feelings of anger and so on.
0:48:22 > 0:48:27It's very difficult to describe but when somebody shares your name,
0:48:27 > 0:48:30they're sharing something very personal...
0:48:31 > 0:48:32..and...
0:48:34 > 0:48:37..that's a link and it can't be broken.
0:48:37 > 0:48:40I have a sense of duty
0:48:40 > 0:48:45that I must honour the memory of David
0:48:45 > 0:48:50and lay flowers for his family who can't make it on the day.
0:49:08 > 0:49:11David has remarried since the disaster,
0:49:11 > 0:49:14and he and his wife pay tribute to the other David Gould
0:49:14 > 0:49:18at Lockerbie's Dryfesdale Cemetery every year.
0:49:18 > 0:49:21They also lay flowers for Tony Hawkins,
0:49:21 > 0:49:23whose widow, Helen, and son, Alan,
0:49:23 > 0:49:26were hosted by David when they visited Lockerbie.
0:49:26 > 0:49:29Yet another transatlantic link.
0:49:31 > 0:49:34Many relatives of those who died visited Lockerbie
0:49:34 > 0:49:37and many of them passed through the kitchen
0:49:37 > 0:49:40of Tundergarth Mains farmhouse.
0:49:40 > 0:49:44'It was on this farm that the Boeing 747's nose cone
0:49:44 > 0:49:46'and scores of bodies fell.'
0:49:46 > 0:49:48And on the length and breadth of our farm,
0:49:48 > 0:49:51we had nearly 100...
0:49:51 > 0:49:53of the bodies were found.
0:49:59 > 0:50:01At the time...
0:50:03 > 0:50:05It sounds horrible. At the time, they were...
0:50:05 > 0:50:08they weren't people - they were just bodies,
0:50:08 > 0:50:11and most of them just looked as though they were asleep,
0:50:11 > 0:50:12quite peaceful.
0:50:14 > 0:50:16Lesley did not sleep that night
0:50:16 > 0:50:20but, in the morning, she still went to work in nearby Dumfries.
0:50:20 > 0:50:23Arriving at work was surreal,
0:50:23 > 0:50:25because no-one knew...
0:50:25 > 0:50:27My work colleagues didn't know
0:50:27 > 0:50:30what had happened to any of us at that point.
0:50:32 > 0:50:34It fell to Lesley to tell her colleagues
0:50:34 > 0:50:37that their boss, Jack Somerville,
0:50:37 > 0:50:42his wife and two children were among the 11 Lockerbie locals killed
0:50:42 > 0:50:46when a wing of the jumbo jet smashed into Sherwood Crescent.
0:50:46 > 0:50:48Having to tell them that...
0:50:50 > 0:50:54..he had perished that night was very difficult.
0:50:56 > 0:50:58He was a nice guy, a good boss.
0:51:02 > 0:51:05Back at Tundergarth, where so many victims lay,
0:51:05 > 0:51:09it wasn't long before those who loved them started to arrive.
0:51:11 > 0:51:14There was... A constant stream of relatives came.
0:51:17 > 0:51:20We did what we could for them -
0:51:20 > 0:51:23not a great deal, I don't think, in a lot of cases.
0:51:23 > 0:51:25But, then, you do what you can,
0:51:25 > 0:51:28even if it's just to be a shoulder to lean on,
0:51:28 > 0:51:29a shoulder to cry on.
0:51:30 > 0:51:34A lot came because they needed - or hoped -
0:51:34 > 0:51:36to find some kind of...
0:51:38 > 0:51:41..closure, to a certain extent,
0:51:41 > 0:51:48because it was very difficult to comprehend or to understand.
0:51:48 > 0:51:51Lesley Smith still lives near Lockerbie
0:51:51 > 0:51:53and meets relatives of Pan Am victims
0:51:53 > 0:51:55when they return to the town.
0:51:55 > 0:51:57Some have visited many times.
0:51:57 > 0:52:01I think it's quite comforting for a lot of them to come back here,
0:52:01 > 0:52:06and to come back to the peace and tranquillity of round here
0:52:06 > 0:52:10as well as, you know, coming back to visit Lockerbie
0:52:10 > 0:52:12because of the meaning it has.
0:52:12 > 0:52:17We do, as well, count them as friends nowadays,
0:52:17 > 0:52:21rather than just acquaintances through this.
0:52:21 > 0:52:23We do most definitely count a lot of them
0:52:23 > 0:52:26as very good and very close friends.
0:52:26 > 0:52:31Among those friends, Mary Kay Stratis and her daughter, Sonia.
0:52:31 > 0:52:35Lesley's visited them in the United States several times.
0:52:35 > 0:52:40The body of Sonia's dad, Elia, was found at Tundergarth.
0:52:40 > 0:52:43I would like to think...yes, we would've been friends anyway.
0:52:43 > 0:52:46But I'm not sure how we ever would have met,
0:52:46 > 0:52:49had it not been for the air disaster.
0:52:51 > 0:52:52Having said that,
0:52:52 > 0:52:56we would give up those friendships if we could've turned the clock back
0:52:56 > 0:52:59for them not to have lost their loved ones.
0:52:59 > 0:53:02But then, unfortunately, you can't do that,
0:53:02 > 0:53:06which I think, in some ways, is why their friendships mean so much...
0:53:08 > 0:53:10..on both sides, I think.
0:53:10 > 0:53:14Sonia Stratis was seven years old when her dad died.
0:53:14 > 0:53:19He only booked on Pan AM 103 to get home a day earlier.
0:53:19 > 0:53:2225 years on, Sonia and her husband, Chris,
0:53:22 > 0:53:25have started their own family...
0:53:25 > 0:53:27Way to go!
0:53:27 > 0:53:28What next?
0:53:28 > 0:53:31- Dolphin.- Dolphin. - Dolphin.
0:53:31 > 0:53:34..a family that would almost certainly not exist,
0:53:34 > 0:53:37had it not been for the Lockerbie bombing.
0:53:37 > 0:53:39You know, I... It's funny.
0:53:39 > 0:53:42Our families had known each other for 20 years, right,
0:53:42 > 0:53:45and I have never met her.
0:53:45 > 0:53:48Chris and Sonia met for the first time
0:53:48 > 0:53:52at the Arlington memorial service for the 20th anniversary.
0:53:52 > 0:53:55I had actually seen him at the memorial service the year before
0:53:55 > 0:53:57and thought he was cute.
0:53:57 > 0:54:04But I had never interacted with him, and...
0:54:04 > 0:54:05yeah, it wasn't on my grid,
0:54:05 > 0:54:12and then at the 20th, we... we did, we went to the hotel lobby,
0:54:12 > 0:54:16just to hang out. Kind of a lot of the younger...
0:54:16 > 0:54:19The generation that were children who lost their parents,
0:54:19 > 0:54:21that generation, were hanging out downstairs.
0:54:21 > 0:54:25It must have been like four hours or something...maybe four hours,
0:54:25 > 0:54:28and we were just sitting talking, and I don't know,
0:54:28 > 0:54:30just...it was like, "Hey," you know,
0:54:30 > 0:54:34and there was just like an instant chemistry, I think.
0:54:34 > 0:54:38# Holy, holy, holy
0:54:38 > 0:54:42# It's our Lord God Almighty... #
0:54:42 > 0:54:44They married three years ago
0:54:44 > 0:54:47in a ceremony that united two Lockerbie families.
0:54:47 > 0:54:51When Sonia Stratis said, "I do," to Chris Tedeschi,
0:54:51 > 0:54:54his step-sister, Melanie Daniels,
0:54:54 > 0:54:57was there to witness the happy event.
0:54:57 > 0:55:00Russ and Kathy Tedeschi!
0:55:00 > 0:55:04Chris's dad is married to Melanie's mum.
0:55:04 > 0:55:08Chris and Sonia's wedding anniversary is in August.
0:55:08 > 0:55:13But December the 21st will always be the date they first met.
0:55:13 > 0:55:18It's definitely a bittersweet date for me of, still, 25 years on,
0:55:18 > 0:55:23mourning the loss of my father and yet celebrating this new family
0:55:23 > 0:55:27and new life that... that I get to have now.
0:55:27 > 0:55:31Despite the tragic events, something good came of this.
0:55:31 > 0:55:35And how God can really restore things that are tragic.
0:55:35 > 0:55:38And...and this is one of those cases.
0:55:38 > 0:55:40And what's that?
0:55:41 > 0:55:45Their first son Joshua's middle name is Elia,
0:55:45 > 0:55:47after his late grandfather.
0:55:47 > 0:55:50When we met them, they were anticipating the arrival
0:55:50 > 0:55:54of another boy, to be named Lucian.
0:55:54 > 0:55:58And I think telling Joshua and Lucian, our new baby,
0:55:58 > 0:56:03about their grandfather and his character,
0:56:03 > 0:56:05it will also be inspiration of,
0:56:05 > 0:56:09"Hey...this is a great man that you can look to
0:56:09 > 0:56:11"as a role model even if he's not here."
0:56:11 > 0:56:15One of two men this family will always remember.
0:56:15 > 0:56:20Two men died to bring us together in a way, and they're...
0:56:20 > 0:56:23there aren't any sets of brothers in my family,
0:56:23 > 0:56:27and yet we're having the first sets of...of boys, two boys,
0:56:27 > 0:56:32and I just think that's really significant as a way of...
0:56:32 > 0:56:35another way of redeeming what's happened.
0:56:35 > 0:56:39Two boys of strong character who are going to be wonderful.
0:56:39 > 0:56:44Sonia gave birth to Lucian Alexander Tedeschi on November the 21st,
0:56:44 > 0:56:47a month before the Lockerbie anniversary.
0:56:47 > 0:56:51Lesley Smith was among the first to post congratulations.
0:56:51 > 0:56:54Baby Lucian and his brother will grow up
0:56:54 > 0:56:59to know that their grandfather and their step-gran's first husband
0:56:59 > 0:57:01died on Pan AM Flight 103
0:57:01 > 0:57:04and that, had this horror not happened,
0:57:04 > 0:57:07their parents would probably never have met.
0:57:07 > 0:57:10They're the start of a new generation...
0:57:10 > 0:57:12living with Lockerbie.
0:57:15 > 0:57:21In some ways, Carol King Eckersley is part of that new generation,
0:57:21 > 0:57:24having only just learned her son was on the plane.
0:57:24 > 0:57:29It's been a real roller coaster -
0:57:29 > 0:57:34sobbing one minute and being hugged by somebody the next
0:57:34 > 0:57:38and meeting a friend of my son the next.
0:57:40 > 0:57:46I don't know how long it's going to take to assimilate it all.
0:57:50 > 0:57:53One day, she hopes to come here to Lockerbie
0:57:53 > 0:57:55as so many bereaved relatives have done.
0:57:55 > 0:57:58To see the spot where her son fell,
0:57:58 > 0:58:02and perhaps to feel the embrace of a community
0:58:02 > 0:58:04that endures its own pain
0:58:04 > 0:58:06and keeps its collective heart open
0:58:06 > 0:58:09to all those who lost loved ones at Lockerbie
0:58:09 > 0:58:1225 Christmases ago.
0:58:12 > 0:58:15Local police officer Colin Dorrance
0:58:15 > 0:58:18has already offered to be Carol's Lockerbie guide.
0:58:18 > 0:58:22One of the many thousands of people touched by this tragedy,
0:58:22 > 0:58:26reaching out to help another after all these years.