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IN MEMORIUM
Lamplighter Sat Dec 21, 2013 9:43 am
Today is the 25th anniversary of the Lockerbie tragedy. RIP. LL
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Re: IN MEMORIUM
bb1 Sat Dec 21, 2013 10:17 am
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-25364127
Memorial services are to be held in the UK and the US to mark the 25th anniversary of the Lockerbie bombing in which 270 people were killed.
A wreath-laying and church service will be held in the south of Scotland town which was devastated when Pan Am flight 103 was blown from the skies in 1988.
A remembrance service is also being staged at Westminster Abbey in London.
In the US, a ceremony will take place at the memorial cairn in Arlington National Cemetery, near Washington DC.
The Lockerbie bombing remains the deadliest act of terrorism ever committed in the UK and until the attacks of 9/11 it was also responsible for the biggest single loss of American lives in such an attack.
The Boeing 747 was just over half an hour into its flight from London to New York when it exploded, seconds before 19:03 UK time, on 21 December 1988.
Devastation and horror'
All 243 passengers and 16 crew died, and a further 11 people were killed in their homes when wreckage hit the ground in Lockerbie.
Canon Patrick Keegans, who was parish priest at Lockerbie at the time of the bombing, said the anniversary had "brought to the surface many, many emotions people have had over the past 25 years".
"Other anniversaries have been calmer. This one makes us remember the devastation and horror that all of us experienced 25 years ago," he told BBC Breakfast.
Continue reading the main story
The Lockerbie bombing
Convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi (C) is escorted by security officers in Tripoli, February 1992
Pan Am flight 103 from London to New York was destroyed by a bomb on 21 December 1988 over Lockerbie, Scotland
All 243 passengers and 16 crew were killed, as well as 11 people on the ground
Investigators believed two Libyan intelligence agents were responsible
Abdelbaset al-Megrahi (pictured) was jailed for the bombing in 2001 but released in August 2009 suffering from cancer and died in May 2012
In 2003 Col Muammar Gaddafi accepted that Libya carried out the bombing but denied giving the orders himself
There have been numerous theories about others who may have been involved
Encyclopaedia Britannica: Pan Am flight 103
The majority of the passengers and crew on board the aircraft were US citizens.
In the United States, a service of "hope and remembrance" is planned at the Hendricks Chapel of Syracuse University in New York state, which lost 35 students who had been studying at its London campus. The service will be followed by a procession to its Wall of Remembrance.
A further service will also take place at the university's Lubin House in New York.
Events at the Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia will centre on its Pan Am 103 Memorial Cairn.
It is made of 270 blocks of Scottish sandstone - one for each of the victims of the bombing.
Events in Lockerbie will see a wreath-laying at the Dryfesdale Cemetery in the afternoon with a service at the Dryfesdale Church in the evening which will have the theme of "looking forward".
Continued at BBC Scotland; I could have done without Camoron trying to make political capital out of this tragedy.
Memorial services are to be held in the UK and the US to mark the 25th anniversary of the Lockerbie bombing in which 270 people were killed.
A wreath-laying and church service will be held in the south of Scotland town which was devastated when Pan Am flight 103 was blown from the skies in 1988.
A remembrance service is also being staged at Westminster Abbey in London.
In the US, a ceremony will take place at the memorial cairn in Arlington National Cemetery, near Washington DC.
The Lockerbie bombing remains the deadliest act of terrorism ever committed in the UK and until the attacks of 9/11 it was also responsible for the biggest single loss of American lives in such an attack.
The Boeing 747 was just over half an hour into its flight from London to New York when it exploded, seconds before 19:03 UK time, on 21 December 1988.
Devastation and horror'
All 243 passengers and 16 crew died, and a further 11 people were killed in their homes when wreckage hit the ground in Lockerbie.
Canon Patrick Keegans, who was parish priest at Lockerbie at the time of the bombing, said the anniversary had "brought to the surface many, many emotions people have had over the past 25 years".
"Other anniversaries have been calmer. This one makes us remember the devastation and horror that all of us experienced 25 years ago," he told BBC Breakfast.
Continue reading the main story
The Lockerbie bombing
Convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi (C) is escorted by security officers in Tripoli, February 1992
Pan Am flight 103 from London to New York was destroyed by a bomb on 21 December 1988 over Lockerbie, Scotland
All 243 passengers and 16 crew were killed, as well as 11 people on the ground
Investigators believed two Libyan intelligence agents were responsible
Abdelbaset al-Megrahi (pictured) was jailed for the bombing in 2001 but released in August 2009 suffering from cancer and died in May 2012
In 2003 Col Muammar Gaddafi accepted that Libya carried out the bombing but denied giving the orders himself
There have been numerous theories about others who may have been involved
Encyclopaedia Britannica: Pan Am flight 103
The majority of the passengers and crew on board the aircraft were US citizens.
In the United States, a service of "hope and remembrance" is planned at the Hendricks Chapel of Syracuse University in New York state, which lost 35 students who had been studying at its London campus. The service will be followed by a procession to its Wall of Remembrance.
A further service will also take place at the university's Lubin House in New York.
Events at the Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia will centre on its Pan Am 103 Memorial Cairn.
It is made of 270 blocks of Scottish sandstone - one for each of the victims of the bombing.
Events in Lockerbie will see a wreath-laying at the Dryfesdale Cemetery in the afternoon with a service at the Dryfesdale Church in the evening which will have the theme of "looking forward".
Continued at BBC Scotland; I could have done without Camoron trying to make political capital out of this tragedy.
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bb1 Sat Dec 21, 2013 2:22 pm
http://news.sky.com/story/1185703/lockerbie-25th-anniversary-victims-remembered
Memorial service from Lockerbie being streamed here.
Memorial service from Lockerbie being streamed here.
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