Thursday, February 17, 2005
Remembrance
400 parents lost a child (46 losing their only child), 65 women were widowed, 11 men became widowers, 140 people lost one parent, 7 people lost both parents. 259 people died in the airplane and 11 people died on the ground. 189 Americans. That was how Chief Prosecutor Colin Boyd ended his presentation to the panel of judges as they considered sentencing the two men held legally responsible for the December 1988 bombing of PanAm Flight 103 over the Scottish town of Lockerbie. As Michelle Malkin writes, today was the day, in 1989, that investigators announced that the cause of the 1988 crash of Pan Am 103 was an exploding bomb on-board the aircraft. Here is the passenger list. Let's pause to remember them at least once or twice today.
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