A 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.
PL 103-158 (S.J.Res.129), enacted 11/24/1993

PUBLIC LAW 103-158—NOV. 24, 1993 
107 STAT. 1533 
Public Law 103-158 
103d Congress 
Joint Resolution 
To authorize the placement of a memorial cairn in Arlington National Cemetery, 
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Arlington, Virginia, to honor the 270 victims of the terrorist bombing of Pan 
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Am Flight 103. 
[S.J. Res. 129] 
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 PhiUips; 
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 Wil-
liams, Miriam Luby Wolfe; 
MASSACHUSETTS: JuHan MacBain Benello, Nicole Ehse Bou-
langer, Nicholas Bright, Gary Leonard Colasanti, Joseph Pat-
rick 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 Gibson, Pamela Elaine 
Herbert, Khalid Nazir Jaafar, Gregory Kosmowski, Louis 
Anthony Marengo, Anmol Rattan, Garima Rattan, Suruchi Rat-
tan, 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 CiuUa, Eric Michael Coker, 
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PUBLIC LAW 103-158—NOV. 24, 1993 
Jason Michael Coker, William Allan Daniels, Gretchen Joyce 
Dater, Michael Joseph Doyle, John Patrick Flynn, Kenneth 
Raymond Garczjmski, William David Giebler, Roger Elwood 
Hurst, Robert Van Houten Jeck, Timothy Baron Johnson, Patri-
cia 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 Kathr}^! Tsairis, Raymond Ronald Wagner, 
Dedera Lynn Woods, Chelsea Marie Woods, Joe Nathan Woods, 
Joe Nathan Woods, Jr.; 
NEW YORK: John Michael Gerard Ahem, Rachel Maria 
Asrelsky, Harry Michael Bainbridge, Kenneth 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 (Jerard Fortune, Amy Beth Gallagher, Andre 
Nikolai Guevorgian, Lorraine Buser Halsch, L3nine Carol 
Hartunian, Katherine Augusta HoUister, Melina Kristina Hud-
son, Karen Lee Hunt, Kathleen Mary Jermjni, Christopher 
Andrew Jones, William Chase Le3n*er, William Edward Mack, 
Elizabeth Lillian Marek, Daniel Emmet McCarthy, Suzanne 
Marie Miazga, Joseph Kenneth Miller, Jewell Courtney Mitch-
ell, Eva Ingeborg Morson, John Mulroy, Mary Denice O'Neill, 
Robert Italo Pagnucco, Christos Michael Papadopoulos, David 
Piatt, 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 Wil-
liam 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; 
OHIO: John David Akerstrom, Shanti Dixit, Douglas 
Eugene Malicote, Wendy Gay MaUcote, Peter Raymond Peirce, 
Michael Pescatore, Peter Vulcu; 
PENNSYLVANIA: Martin Lewis Apfelbaum, Timothy Michael 
Cardwell, David Scott Domstein, Anne Madelene Grorgacz, 
Linda Susan Gordon-Gorgacz, Loretta Anne Gorgacz, David 
J. Gould, Rodney Peter Hilbert, Beth Ann Johnson, Robert 
Eugene McCoUum, Elyse Jeanne Saraceni, Scott Christopher 
Saunders; 
RHODE 
ISLAND: Bernard Joseph McLaughlin, 
Robert 
Thomas Schlageter; 
TEXAS: Willis Larry Coursey, Michael Gary Stinnett, Char-
lotte 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, lija Syhnove Skabo, Milutin Velimirovich; 
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Whereas 15 active duty members and at least 10 veterans of the 
United States Armed Forces and members of their 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, Vir-
ginia; and 
Whereas Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia, is a 
fitting and appropriate place for a memorisd in honor of those 
who perished in the Flight 103 bombing: Now, therefore, be 
it 
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled. That the President 
is authorized and requested to place in Arlington National Ceme-
tery, Arlington, Virginia, a memorial cairn, donated by the people 
of Scotland, honoring the 270 victims of the terrorist bombing 
of Pan Am Flight 103 who died on December 21, 1988, over 
Lockerbie, Scotland. 
Approved November 24, 1993. 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY—S.J. Res. 129: 
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 139 (1993): 
Nov. 8, considered and passed Senate. 
Nov. 16, considered and passed House.