Sunday, Dec. 21, marks the 20th anniversary of the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103
and the loss of 270 individuals, including 35 Syracuse University students returning
from a semester abroad in London and Florence. The plane exploded in the skies over
Lockerbie, Scotland, at 2:03 p.m. Eastern time on Dec. 21, 1988.
Syracuse University will mark the anniversary on Sunday with a Service of
Remembrance at 2:03 p.m. in Hendricks Chapel, which is open to the public. The
service will be led by the Rev. Kelly Sprinkle and chaplains from Hendricks Chapel,
and will include music, prayers and reflections, and a reading of the names of the 35
student victims from SU. Sprinkle will share a prayer that he collaboratively wrote
with clergy in Washington, D.C., and Lockerbie. The prayer will be read at services
at those sites on the same date.
Following the service, those gathered will process to the Wall of Remembrance, while
the Crouse College chimes toll 35 times in remembrance of the lost students. A candle
and memorial wreath will be placed at the wall, and Sprinkle will read a memorial
statement.
Services will also be held on Dec. 21 at Arlington National Cemetery outside
Washington, D.C., where representatives from SU will be in attendance; and in
Lockerbie, where wreaths will be presented on behalf of SU and the Lockerbie
Scholars.
For more information on the 20th anniversary commemoration, visit
http://panam103.syr.edu.
