A crescendo of sound, a flash of light, and a vast cloud of flame precipitated the most horrific night of George White’s life. A lifelong resident of Lockerbie, George had served as a paramedic on the village’s ambulance squad for the past 28 years, yet the night’s chaos would push the veteran to the edge…
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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…
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…
This past fall, students in the Web Journalism & Innovation class at Syracuse University’s Newhouse school created a multimedia website to chronicle the 25 year timeline of events precipitated by the bombing of Pan Am 103. Among the most poignant is the map of London highlighting haunts popular with students, the old Syracuse University London…
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…
“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