More Charges to Come?
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/lockerbie-bombing-more-charges-likely-robert-mueller-says-1.2467244
Malaysia Airlines MH17
Our thoughts are with the families of those lost on Malaysia Airlines MH17 today. Thoughts: July 19. Many of the images from the tragic downing of MH17 bear a disconcerting similarity to those of Pan Am 103 from so many years ago. Once again, an airliner disintegrated in midair; once again, hundreds of innocents became…
2014 Remembrance Week: October 19-25
Syracuse University’s 2014 Remembrance Week is scheduled for October 19-25, with the Rose Laying Ceremony and Remembrance Convocation slated for the 25th.
A permanent home for Dark Elegy?
Dark Elegy might have a permanent home. “‘Dark Elegy,’ a sculpture created by Suse Lowenstein of Montauk to depict the grief of those, like her, who lost loved ones in the 1988 terrorist bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, could find a permanent home at Montauk’s Kirk Park.”
Obfuscation
I’ve often commented on the sense that I was drawn or pulled into a larger story. I found myself intertwined in the narrative surrounding Pan Am 103 on the evening of the bombing in 1988. It hit too close to home, literally and figuratively, for me to ignore. By the same token, I’m also aware…
Congratulations, 2014-15 Remembrance Scholars!
Syracuse University has just announced names of those selected as 2014-15 Remembrance Scholars. Congratulations, and I hope to meet a few of you during Remembrance Week. This year’s scholars are: Tonya Bauer: Arts & Sciences Brittany Beyer: Arts & Sciences Katherine Bunch: Arts & Sciences Rachael Burke: Arts & Sciences Katelyn Edel: Arts & Sciences…
Epiphany: 4/21/1989
Death was a frequent and unwelcome companion in the early 1980s. Five young friends and neighbors died in the 70s and early 80s; most perished in accidents along Boughton Hill Road. Greg, my best friend’s brother, was the first to die. A victim of a motorcycle accident, it would take years for his brain injury…
Pan Am 103 Reading List, Part 1
The first books covering the bombing of Pan Am 103 appeared within appeared within months of the tragedy. Over a dozen others have followed in the 25 years since the Lockerbie bombing. The following reports and books approach the disaster from a number of perspectives. Some are forensic, some journalistic, some intensely personal. I’ve chosen…
25 Years: Pan Am 103 eBook.
I’ve just put the finishing touches on an ebook chronicling, through photographs, our visits to Syracuse during Remembrance Week and the 25th Anniversary Memorial Service. The ebook is free, and available either as an iBooks file for Apple products, or as a PDF file for everyone (I prefer the PDF version myself, but it’s quite…
Pan Am Flight 103/Lockerbie Air Disaster Archives
A sweater, a journal, a board game, a ball cap: nondescript objects that, in a normal context, would warrant little attention. Yet each item, no matter how commonplace, no matter how seemingly mundane, carries with it a whisper of a life cut short by a distant tragedy. All of the objects listed now reside safely…
Richard Newbegin and “Song for Karen”
“Please accept this song from a total stranger.” Richard Newbegin Karen Lee, are you listening? Karen Lee, can you hear me? Are you there, can you see me? Let me know if you’re near me. The winter’s coldness blows, The warmth of you still glows. I wish that I could know who you were. Were…
Global Coverage of the 25th Anniversary
Global Coverage of the 25th Anniversary Syracuse University complied a list of news outlets covering the 25th anniversary of the Lockerbie bombing. I appear briefly in one of the segments (CNY News). I still cringe when I see that portion—such is the price I pay for not following that tried and true Jordan tradition of…