It was August when I last visited Webster as a means of honoring a vow to visit a meaningful place for the first time in 17 years. It was a to be the culmination of a new website created to finally articulate thoughts and memories that had lingered in near silence for 20 years. Three…
Pan Am 103 fell from the skies at 7:03pm, GMT. Traci and I are in Syracuse today for the 25th Anniversary Memorial service at Syracuse University this afternoon. I’ll have more to say later about the person who changed my life when we return to the hotel.
Traci and I are leaving for Syracuse shortly where we’ll join others tomorrow to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. We’ll join my family in Honeoye and Webster afterward for Christmas. I have another chapter planned as part of the 25th anniversary, as well as some personal reflections on…
Today’s edition of Syracuse.com features Alexander Lowenstein, one of the 35 DIPA students killed in the bombing of Pan Am 103, and the intensely moving and personal nature of the material his parents donated to the Archives at Syracuse University. His mother, Suse Lowenstein, created the Dark Elegy in the aftermath of the disaster. Among…
“We are not stuck as victims of our circumstances and we can look to the future with hope even if we don’t know what it will hold. We do talk about these things and it is helpful to have a husband who can have empathy for my loss because of the family that he was…
“God is now enjoying the fine wine that is Kenneth John Bissett. But God should have waited until 101 rather than 21.” —Florence Bissett John and Florence Bissett adopted Kenneth when he was an infant. He appreciated their love, and hoped to reciprocate their kindness in the future, expressing those sentiments in an elementary school…
An Enduring Legacy of Hope “Twenty-five years ago, students from Syracuse University and other schools and colleges embarked on a journey of a lifetime. They began their study abroad experiences in Europe—London and Florence in particular—through SU’s Division of International Programs Abroad (DIPA, now SU Abroad). They could all be described as bright, ambitious, curious;…
Remembrance is not a week for me. It’s a constant state of mind. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/katy-widrick/pam-am-103_b_4399711.html
The Syracuse Remembrance committee has posted updated details on the five memorial services to be held on December 21, 2013, the 25th anniversary of the bombing of Pan Am 103. Services will be held in the following locations: Syracuse University — 2:03 PM in Hendricks Chapel Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA — 1:30 PM at…
There will be memorial services marking the 25th anniversary of the Pan Am 103 bombings on December 21st in London, Lockerbie, Arlington National Cemetery, and Syracuse University. The ceremonies are scheduled for 7:03 GMT/2:03 EST.
Telling the Stories: The Pan Am Flight 103 Story Archive Project Archivists recently visited Lockerbie, where they collected a number of interviews from eyewitnesses. The project continued during Remembrance Week last month. Clips from a number of the interviews in Scotland and England are now posted on the Syracuse University Pan Am 103 Archive’s Youtube…
This project has taken on a life of its own over the past 3 months; I hardly envisioned traveling to Syracuse for Remembrance Week as I laid the foundations of “Remembering Karen” in July and early August, nor could I have foreseen the wealth of information I’d uncover over the past few weeks. The result…