Sarah Philipps (Middle) Julianne Kelly (shorts) 15 Elgin London. Video of Sarah with brother Fritz Philipps

24 Years ago today the tragedy of Pan Am 103 lingers, on this day in 1988, then 20 year old Sarah Philipps of Newton, MA (Newton North High School ’86) was seated in Seat 21F sitting next to her good friend Julianne F. Kelly of Dedham, MA (Dedham High School ’86) Seat 21E on their way home after completing the semester studying abroad with the Syracuse University study abroad program in London.

On December 21, 1988, 243 passengers, 16 crew members and 11 on the ground lost their lives when the Boeing 747 exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland from a terrorist’s bomb.

A life stolen before it really began, like the 20 children and other victims from the shooting rampage in Newtown, CT at Sandy Hook Elementary School, what contributions to society have we missed by these senseless killings? We will never know.

Remember the Victims, the Victim’s Parents, Families, and Friends of Pan Am 103, Sandy Hook Elementary School, and all of the other man-made genocides.

Sarah…you will never be forgotten…in loving memory of your precious life…

Sarah Susannah Buchanan Philipps

8/15/1968 – 12/21/88

“Death Leaves a Heartache No One Can Heal, Love Leaves a Memory No One Can Steal.”