Just realising that it’s coming up on 35 years since the Lockerbie bombing and some of those posting on the Next Pan Am Christmas jumper post were more than likely not born at the time and are dismissing the insensitivity from a complete lack of awareness of the impact that the bombing had on folk in Scotland.
I had a friend who was a witness at the Hague, who described her and her son delivering Christmas presents to friends in Lockerbie and witnessing the sky on fire and lumps of burning meat landing all around them.
The link is the Newsnight coverage the day after the bombing when they didn’t know who or what caused it.
It’s worth watching to maybe to understand just how shocking it was for folk at the time.
I remember it well. I actually had to get on a plane home to Glasgow for Xmas the day after, and a couple of weeks later drove past Lockerbie on the A74, they’d put up a huge fence to block the sight of of it.
I have no idea why the logo has become part of an Xmas jumper, though it does have a kind of retro cool to it. But I also have no idea why people think it is offensive to use the logo of a company that was a victim of this terrorist attack.
JFC – just stop.
Pan-Am – which no longer exists – just happened to fall victim to an act of terrorism and a fatal incident.
As have a great number of brands.
Should American Airlines not have their brand used in Merch because their planes were “used” in 9/11?
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Just realising that it’s coming up on 35 years since the Lockerbie bombing and some of those posting on the Next Pan Am Christmas jumper post were more than likely not born at the time and are dismissing the insensitivity from a complete lack of awareness of the impact that the bombing had on folk in Scotland.
I had a friend who was a witness at the Hague, who described her and her son delivering Christmas presents to friends in Lockerbie and witnessing the sky on fire and lumps of burning meat landing all around them.
The link is the Newsnight coverage the day after the bombing when they didn’t know who or what caused it.
It’s worth watching to maybe to understand just how shocking it was for folk at the time.
I remember it well. I actually had to get on a plane home to Glasgow for Xmas the day after, and a couple of weeks later drove past Lockerbie on the A74, they’d put up a huge fence to block the sight of of it.
I have no idea why the logo has become part of an Xmas jumper, though it does have a kind of retro cool to it. But I also have no idea why people think it is offensive to use the logo of a company that was a victim of this terrorist attack.
JFC – just stop.
Pan-Am – which no longer exists – just happened to fall victim to an act of terrorism and a fatal incident.
As have a great number of brands.
Should American Airlines not have their brand used in Merch because their planes were “used” in 9/11?
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Should Transport For London not sell Merch as its buses and trains were the subjects of terrorist attack?
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