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103D CONGRESS

1ST SESSION H. J. RES. 240

To authorize the placement of a memorial cairn in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia, to honor the 270 victims of the terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

JULY 27, 1993

Mr. KENNEDY (for himself, Mr. SANGMEISTER, Mr. EVANS, Mr. WALSH, Mr.

GUTIERREZ, and Mr. SCHUMER) introduced the following joint resolution;

which was referred to the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs

JOINT RESOLUTION

To authorize the placement of a memorial cairn in Arlington

National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia, to honor the 270

victims of the terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.

Whereas Pan Am Flight 103 was destroyed by a bomb during the flight over Lockerbie, Scotland, on December 21,

1988;

Whereas 270 persons from 21 countries were killed in this

terrorist bombing;

Whereas 189 of those killed were citizens of the United

States including the following citizens from 21 States,

the District of Columbia, and United States citizens living abroad:

ARKANSAS: Frederick Sanford Phillips;
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CALIFORNIA: Jerry Don Avritt, Surinder Mohan

Bhatia, Stacie Denise Franklin, Matthew Kevin Gannon,

Paul Isaac Garrett, Barry Joseph Valentino, Jonathan

White;

COLORADO: Steven Lee Butler;

CONNECTICUT: Scott Marsh Cory, Patricia Mary

Coyle, Shannon Davis, Turhan Ergin, Thomas Britton

Schultz, Amy Elizabeth Shapiro;

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Nicholas Andreas Vrenios;

FLORIDA: John Binning Cummock;

ILLINOIS: Janina Jozefa Waido;

KANSAS: Lloyd David Ludlow;

MARYLAND: Michael Stuart Bernstein, Jay Joseph

Kingham, Karen Elizabeth Noonan, Anne Lindsey

Otenasek, Anita Lynn Reeves, Louise Ann Rogers,

George Watterson Williams, Miriam Luby Wolfe;

MASSACHUSETTS: Julian MacBain Benello, Nicole

Elise Boulanger, Nicholas Bright, Gary Leonard

Colasanti, Joseph Patrick Curry, Mary Lincoln Johnson,

Julianne Frances Kelly, Wendy Anne Lincoln, Daniel

Emmett O’Connor, Sarah Susannah Buchanan Philipps,

James Andrew Campbell Pitt, Cynthia Joan Smith,

Thomas Edwin Walker;

MICHIGAN: Lawrence Ray Bennett, Diane Boatman-Fuller, James Ralph Fuller, Kenneth James Gib-
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son, Pamela Elaine Herbert, Khalid Nazir Jaafar, Gregory Kosmowski, Louis Anthony Marengo, Anmol Rattan,

Garima Rattan, Suruchi Rattan, Mary Edna Smith,

Arva Anthony Thomas, Jonathan Ryan Thomas,

Lawanda Thomas;

MINNESOTA: Philip Vernon Bergstrom;

NEW HAMPSHIRE: Stephen John Boland, James

Bruce MacQuarrie;

NEW JERSEY: Thomas Joseph Ammerman, Michael

Warren Buser, Warren Max Buser, Frank Ciulla, Eric

Michael Coker, Jason Michael Coker, William Allan

Daniels, Gretchen Joyce Dater, Michael Joseph Doyle,

John Patrick Flynn, Kenneth Raymond Garczynski, William David Giebler, Roger Elwood Hurst, Robert Van

Houten Jeck, Timothy Baron Johnson, Patricia Ann

Klein, Robert Milton Leckburg, Alexander Lowenstein,

Richard Paul Monetti, Martha Owens, Sarah Rebecca

Owens, Laura Abigail Owens, Robert Plack Owens, William Pugh, Diane Marie Rencevicz, Saul Mark Rosen,

Irving Stanley Sigal, Elia Stratis, Alexia Kathryn

Tsairis, Raymond Ronald Wagner, Dedera Lynn Woods,

Chelsea Marie Woods, Joe Nathan Woods, Joe Nathan

Woods, Jr.;

NEW YORK: John Michael Gerard Ahern, Rachel

Maria Asrelsky, Harry Michael Bainbridge, Kenneth
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John Bissett, Paula Marie Bouckley, Colleen Renee

Brunner, Gregory Capasso, Richard Anthony Cawley,

Theodora Eugenia Cohen, Joyce Christine Dimauro,

Edgar Howard Eggleston III, Arthur Fondiler, Robert

Gerard Fortune, Amy Beth Gallagher, Andre Nikolai

Guevorgian, Lorraine Buser Halsch, Lynne Carol

Hartunian, Katherine Augusta Hollister, Melina

Kristina Hudson, Karen Lee Hunt, Kathleen Mary

Jermyn, Christopher Andrew Jones, William Chase

Leyrer, William Edward Mack, Elizabeth Lillian Marek,

Daniel Emmet McCarthy, Suzanne Marie Miazga, Joseph Kenneth Miller, Jewell Courtney Mitchell, Eva

Ingeborg Morson, John Mulroy, Mary Denice O’Neill,

Robert Italo Pagnucco, Christos Michael Papadopoulos,

David Platt, Walter Leonard Porter, Pamela Lynn

Posen, Mark Alan Rein, Andrea Victoria Rosenthal,

Daniel Peter Rosenthal, Joan Sheanshang, Martin Bernard Carruthers Simpson, James Alvin Smith, James

Ralph Stow, Mark Lawrence Tobin, David William

Trimmer-Smith, Asaad Eidi Vejdany, Kesha Weedon,

Jerome Lee Weston, Bonnie Leigh Williams, Brittany

Leigh Williams, Eric Jon Williams, Stephanie Leigh Williams, Mark James Zwynenburg;

NORTH DAKOTA: Steven Russell Berrell;
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OHIO: John David Akerstrom, Shanti Dixit, Douglas Eugene Malicote, Wendy Gay Malicote, Peter Raymond Peirce, Michael Pescatore, Peter Vulcu;

PENNSYLVANIA: Martin Lewis Apfelbaum, Timothy

Michael Cardwell, David Scott Dornstein, Anne

Madelene Gorgacz, Linda Susan Gordon-Gorgacz, Loretta Anne Gorgacz, David J. Gould, Rodney Peter Hilbert,

Beth Ann Johnson, Robert Eugene McCollum, Elyse

Jeanne Saraceni, Scott Christopher Saunders;

RHODE ISLAND: Bernard Joseph McLaughlin, Robert Thomas Schlageter;

TEXAS: Willis Larry Coursey, Michael Gary

Stinnett, Charlotte Ann Stinnett, Stacey Leanne

Stinnett;

VIRGINIA: Ronald Albert Lariviere, Charles Dennis

McKee;

WEST VIRGINIA: Valerie Canady;

UNITED STATES CITIZENS LIVING ABROAD: Sarah

Margaret Aicher, Judith Bernstein Atkinson, William

Garretson Atkinson III, Noelle Lydie Berti, Charles

Thomas Fisher IV, Lilibeth Tobila Macalolooy, Diane

Marie Maslowski, Jane Susan Melber, Jane Ann Morgan, Sean Kevin Mulroy, Jocelyn Reina, Myra Josephine

Royal, Irja Syhnove Skabo, Milutin Velimirovich;

Whereas 15 active duty members and at least 10 veterans of

the United States Armed Forces and members of their
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families were among those who lost their lives in this

tragedy;

Whereas the terrorist bombing of Flight 103 was unquestionably an attack on the United States;

Whereas a memorial cairn honoring the victims of the bombing of Flight 103 has been donated to the people of the

United States by the people of Scotland;

Whereas a small, vacant plot of land, unsuitable for

gravesites, has been located in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia; and

Whereas Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia, is

a fitting and appropriate place for a memorial in honor

of those who perished in the Flight 103 bombing: Now,

therefore, be it

1 Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives

2 of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

3 That the President is authorized and requested to place

4 in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia, a me5 morial cairn, donated by the people of Scotland, honoring

6 the 270 victims of the terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight

7 103 who died on December 21, 1988, over Lockerbie,

8 Scotland.

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