Lockerbie Syracuse Trust scholars represent town at early US events marking 35th anniversary of terrorist disaster
dailyrecord.co.ukLockerbie’s Syracuse Trust scholars Tristan Woolley and Joshua Halliday have been representing the town at early key events in the USA to mark the 35th anniversary of the downing of Flight 103.
The best friends crossed the Atlantic to take up their educational journey of a lifetime in September after being selected for the programme, which was set up in the wake of the Pan Am Disaster, to undertake a year’s study at the New York State university in America.
And that has meant taking part in the university’s Remembrance Week which has the motto Look Back, Act Forward. A total of 35 students from Syracuse were on the ill-fated Pan Am jet when it exploded over the town on December 21, 1988, killing 270 people who were passengers and staff and 11 Lockerbie residents.
It remains the worst act of terrorism on British soil and is still an active investigation. As well as Lockerbie’s two freshmen, there are also 35 Remembrance Scholars at the university this year also honouring the lives of those lost to the bombing.
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