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Message: [QUOTE="sabach, post: 4905437, member: 866"] I'll be with my kids tonight at the Dome to watch the Syracuse men's basketball team play Niagara just as I was thirty-five years ago as a Freshman at SU. It was a night I will never forget. I had finished all of my finals and was waiting in my dorm room to go walk over to the Dome to watch the Orangemen play a basketball game and then go home to celebrate Christmas with my family. It was a happy day. Then the news came that shocked me to my core. Thirty-five of my fellow SU classmates were murdered over the skies of Lockerbie, Scotland in a terrorist attack of Pan Am Flight 103. The students were coming home from a semester abroad. I didn't know what to do. As this article says, I too was in a haze. Back then, we did not have 24 hours news nor the internet so details were coming in very delayed and sketchy. I decided to still go to the game and cheer for the SU students on the court in memory of the ones who would no longer get to see a basketball game, their families or the lives that were ahead for them. Today, we all remember 9-11. But, as an SU student in 1988, this was our 9-11. More United States civilians died in that bombing than in any other terrorist attack before 9-11. I have watched over 1000 Syracuse basketball games in my life and only twice have I cried during one, March 30, 1987 when Keith Smart hit the shot to beat SU in the National Championship game, and December 21, 1988 when we said goodbye to thirty-five fellow students gone too soon. Never forget. Orange Forever. [URL='https://dailyorange.com/2018/12/fog-syracuse-beat-western-michigan-hours-pan-flight-103-tragedy/?fbclid=IwAR30IDeya50GwKIjjOiF_EAUMhw42HjyAuOgrgNj5QoFhFFWVOtLrGpWzIk#google_vignette']‘We were all in a fog’: Syracuse beat Western Michigan hours after Pan Am Flight 103 tragedy[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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