Families and SU community remember Pan Am victims
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SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- The Syracuse University community gathers to remember the victims of Pan Am Flight 103.
The annual remembrance week culminated in a rose laying ceremony Friday.
Designated remembrance scholars placed roses on the wall honoring the 35 students who died in the terrorist bombing December 21, 1988.
Although few of the victims' families live locally, several traveled to participate in the ceremony.
The parents we spoke with said the death of Moammar Gadhafi, suspected of ordering the bombing, does not ease their grief, but could bring them closure in another way.
Karen Lee Hunt's dad Bob Hunt said, “We really feel this would be a golden opportunity to find out who else is involved. We used to wear a button that said Pan Am 103, the truth must be known. So hopefully now, decades later, we might get that truth."
Following the rose laying ceremony, a convocation honored the remembrance scholars, who represent Flight 103's student victims for the year.