Most of you probably realise that today marks the 21st anniversary of the Lockerbie air disaster. I'm always unsure of how to handle dates like today's. To casually include something like Lockerbie alongside inanities like the premier of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs seems to trivialise it, but I sometimes worry that devoting the daily thread to the memory of a single event is excessively morbid. After all, life goes on, even for the families. How long does it take before something like the Lockerbie disaster gets relegated to the status of just something horrible that happened years ago? Does it loom larger in my mind than it otherwise would because of the release of Al-Megrahi? Probably, but it would be no less tragic. It isn't practical for me to list all the victims, but these are the names of the children who should be young adults today:
Joanne Flannigan (10) Lockerbie
Bryony Owen (1) Bristol
Laura Owens (8) Cherry Hill, New Jersey
Anmol Rattan (2) Warren, Michigan
Suruchi Rattan (3) Warren, Michigan
Edina Roller (5) Hungary
Lyndsey Somerville (10) Lockerbie
Paul Somerville (13) Lockerbie
Hannah Stevenson (10) Surrey
Rachael Stevenson (8) Surrey
Stacey Stinnett (9) Duncanville, Texas
Jonathan Thomas (2 months) Southfield, Michigan
Brittany Williams (2 months) Crown Point, New York
Stephanie Williams (1) Crown Point, New York
Chelsea Woods (1) Willingboro, New Jersey
Joe Woods (2) Willingboro, New Jersey
