We lost a delightful young neighbor that day,a day which is seared in my mind.
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Lost a family friend in this tragedy.
Islam - the religion of
blow them to pieces
cut them to pieces
Killing infidels for 1400 years
the origin of Mitch Rapp
Led also to the dissolution of Pan Am about 3 years later.
One perpetrator released from Scottish prison for humanitarian reasons. Yeah, having to eat some of that Scottish cuisine would be a form of torture.
I was in Frankfurt then. An MP buddy just dropped his friend off for that flight.
Yeah, then they released the SOB due to his medical health. He should have never been given a life sentence, only death was a justified punishment. Since he professed allah to the end, I am rather sure that he has found the existence after life to be rather warm with his master lucifer(allah)
Muzzies again. The world didn’t get the message then, and most of it is not getting the message now.
I was stationed in the UK at that time. I had flown on Flight 103 and possibly that aircraft before.
Lost a good friend on that flight.
Had taken this flight just a few weeks before. Lost 2 Co-workers in the bombing.
Explosion was timed to happen when plane was over the ocean.
RIP all victims.
I remember it like it was yesterday but not in a good way. At the time I used to watch the show A Current Affair. They had a reporter, cannot remember his name, big man, had a beard, was there when it was still on fire. I saw raw footage of dead people on fire. The ones on the ground were naked, burned, in pieces. Just writing this hurts my heart. One girl, naked, long blonde hair in her seat in the tree, fire ball all around her. Many hung in those trees. The reporter crying, trying to keep it together. He quit after that. A truly horrific scene.
All you could do was pray they went quick.
A Current Affair never aired that footage again. They apologized for showing it that one time.
Gwen, a Pan-Am stewardess friend, switched off that flight- her route- to attend a Christmas Party with our group. She relayed feelings of relief, yet some ‘guilt’ in the aftermath.
A month later a writer-columnist (NYT?) came to address our republican club. Her only child, her daughter, had been on Flight 103 returning from a school field-trip event. The mother was functioning extremely well but very likely still in a state of disbelief and shock.
Britian and US should have nuked Tripoli or Sirte over that incident...just as Reagan should have nuked Bandar Abass or Isfahan after the Beirut bombing....just to send a message.
I still remember that day. I was out running around and during the mid-afternoon over the radio heard that a plane had gone missing from radar but nothing more at the time.
They went through a lot of different theories, including the Iranians did it for retaliation of the Iranian airbus we shot down — the one the Iranian government sacrificed hoping it would get shot down.