Memorials mark Lockerbie attack anniversary
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By ERIC TUCKER and SYLVIA HUI
ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) - Families of some of the 270 people who died in an airliner bombing 25 years ago gathered for memorial services Saturday in the United States and Britain, honoring victims of a terror attack that killed dozens of American college students and created instant havoc in the Scottish town where wreckage of the plane rained down.
Bagpipes played and wreaths were laid in the Scottish town of Lockerbie and mourners gathered for a moment of silence at London's Westminster Abbey, while U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder told victims' relatives at Arlington National Cemetery that they should take comfort in their unity even if time cannot erase their loss.
"We keep calling for change, and fighting for justice, on behalf of those no longer with us. We rededicate ourselves - and our nation - to the qualities that defined the men and women that we lost," Holder said.
The events marked the 25th anniversary of the explosion of Pan Am 103, a New York-bound flight that exploded over Lockerbie less than an hour after takeoff from London on Dec. 21, 1988. Many of the victims were American college students flying home for Christmas, including 35 Syracuse University students participating in study abroad programs.
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Hedda Flynn, 8, touches the Pan Am Flight 103 memorial cairn at Arlington National Cemetery, in Arlington, Va., Saturday, Dec. 21, 2013, bearing his uncle’s name John Patrick Flynn, who just turned 22 at the time of the crash, during a memorial service to mark the 25th anniversary of the bombing of the Pan Am Flight 103 that crashed over Lockerbie, Scotland. New York bound Pan Am flight 103, exploded over the southern Scottish town on the evening of Dec. 21, 1988, killing 270 people aboard the plane and on the ground. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
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