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History
On December 21, 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 was flying over Lockerbie, Scotland when a terrorist bomb exploded, killing 270 people, including 189 Americans. In 1993, Congress passed and President Clinton signed into law Senate Joint Resolution 129, which named Arlington National Cemetery as the site for the Memorial Cairn that would honor those who died in the explosion. The ground-breaking ceremony for the memorial was held on December 21, 1993.
Description
In 1991, after the terrorist bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland, the people of Lockerbie sent 270 stones to be used as part of a memorial in honor of those who died. A group of family members of the deceased formed The Victims of Pan Am Flight 103, and they guarded the stones until they had acquired enough donations to build the memorial. The Memorial Cairn is modeled after a traditional Scottish memorial that can either be a simple pile of stone or a more structured arrangement. The memorial at Arlington National Cemetery is a circular tower that is ten and one half feet tall. The cobble-stone-sized stones are from Corsehill Quarry in Annan, Scotland.
At the ground-breaking ceremony on December 21, 1993, Senator Edward M. Kennedy gave this speech as reminder that everyone must work together in order to end terroism.
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