Kindred spirits: Long-lasting relationships transcend devastation of Pan Am...
The tragedy of Pan Am Flight 103 is more than a story of devastation. It’s a story of friendship and kindness. Of selflessness and memories. It’s a love story. On Dec. 21, 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 went...
View ArticleI’ll be your memory: First Remembrance Scholars reflect on significance of...
When Greg Mayes heard Pan Am Flight 103 had gone down, leading to the death of its 270 passengers — 35 of them Syracuse University students — he got into his car and went to buy flowers. Twenty-five...
View ArticleVictims group continues search for answers in Pan Am 103 bombing
In the late-December days following the Pan Am Flight 103 explosion over Lockerbie, Scotland, friends and family of the 259 passengers boarded their own flights across the Atlantic. “Victims’ family...
View ArticleSU London alumna, faculty still commemorate, feel loss of students
LONDON — Jen Bidding still remembers not selecting the option to fly home for Winter Break. Bidding, a 1990 Susquehanna University graduate who spent her entire junior year studying in London with...
View ArticleLockerbie residents to bring back Christmas lights
Come December, Lockerbie’s cold winter sky gets incredibly dark after sunset. That’s one of the first things Melissa Chessher noticed when she and her daughter moved there in the winter of 2001. It was...
View ArticleCandlelight vigil honors lives lost in Pan Am 103
From Hendricks Chapel, a large crowd of students walked toward the Place of Remembrance, holding small white candles. They struggled to keep the flames lit, shielding them against the wind. A few...
View ArticleRose Laying Ceremony honors victims of Pan Am Flight 103
A single bagpipe cut through the idyllic fall stillness before the slow procession trickled out of the Hall of Language’s double doors, the two rows of Remembrance and Lockerbie scholars emerging in...
View ArticleRemembrance Week: Rose Laying Ceremony
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Pan Am Flight 103 and its impact on Syracuse University, explained
On Dec. 21, 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 was bombed over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing all 259 passengers aboard and 11 people on the ground. Among those killed in the tragedy were 35 Syracuse University...
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