A 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…
DetailsKaren Hunt was known as a kindly, quirky, and free-spirited individual. Her time in London did nothing to temper these qualities, but the young woman from Webster found a new measure of confidence, maturity, and independence in Notting Hill. When she debarked in Rochester on December 21, she would return weary but wiser to her…
DetailsTomorrow marks the 30th anniversary of the bombing of Pan Am 103. I will provide links to articles as we move through the anniversary and weekend, but three articles recently caught my eye. Syracuse.com ran a story about Remembrance Scholars who often come to see the students they represent as friends. The Boston Globe has…
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