The 2020 Remembrance Week at Syracuse University is another casualty of the COVID pandemic, but this year’s scholars will commemorate the lives of those lost on Pan Am 103 in a variety of ways throughout the year. Today, scholars set up the 35 chairs behind the Wall of Remembrance on campus. Several scholars sat in…
DetailsSyracuse University released the names of the Remembrance Scholars for the 2020-21 academic year. Congratulations, and I hope circumstances will allow me to photograph events during Remembrance Week this fall. Vasundhra Aggarwal of Delhi, India, a student in the School of Architecture and a member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program;Andrew Benbenek of Cicero,…
DetailsA recent BBC story provides details about some of the passengers lost in Tuesday’s crash of Ukraine Flight PS752. Much like Iranian Air Flight 655 in 1988 and Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in 2014, it appears that Flight 752 fell victim to a missile strike. Our thoughts are with those grieving the passengers on the…
DetailsToday, I join those who remember, mourn, commemorate, and celebrate those who lost their lives in the bombing of Pan Am 103.
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SU pays tribute to Pan Am Flight 103 victims
Due to my teaching schedule this semester, I will be unable to attend most of the events scheduled for this year’s Remembrance Week. As in years past, I will post stories from campus as I receive them. The first is a Daily Orange video of last night’s candlelight ceremony.
Syracuse University Will Never Forget with Remembrance Week For Pan Am Flight 103
Syracuse University announced the 2019-20 class of Remembrance Scholars. The scholars, who will join Lockerbie Scholars Brodi Chambers and Rowan Chisholm, are: Hassina Adams of Syracuse, an international relations major in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Maxwell School and a member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program; Adam Bayer of Chappaqua,…
DetailsTEN YEARS AGO last Friday, then FBI Director Robert Mueller bundled himself in his tan trench coat against the cold December air in Washington, his scarf wrapped tightly around his neck. Sitting on a small stage at Arlington National Cemetery, he scanned the faces arrayed before him—the victims he’d come to know over years, relatives…
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