(21 Dec 2013) Families of some of the 270 people who died in the bombing of an airliner over Scotland 25 years ago gathered on Saturday for simultaneous memorial services in the U.S. and Britain.
Bagpipes played and wreaths were laid in the United States, as hundreds gathered at a service at Virginia's Arlington National Cemetery.
Pan Am 103, which was bound for New York, exploded less than an hour after takeoff from London on December 21, 1988.
Many of the victims were American college students flying home for Christmas.
Whitney Davis lost her sister Shannon, a Syracuse University student at the time, and other friends in the explosion.
She learned about the deaths after returning home from Syracuse, which she also attended.
"I brought my daughter here today, she's eight-years-old and it was a little hard to watch her put the heather on the cairn, that was a little difficult for me to watch, but it's important that she know who her aunt was and who her aunt could have been," said Davis, of Bend, Oregon.
A service was also scheduled at Syracuse University.
One man - former Libyan intelligence official Abdel Baset al-Megrahi - was convicted of the bombing.
He was given a life sentence, but Scottish authorities released him on humanitarian grounds in 2009 when he was diagnosed with prostate cancer.
He died in Tripoli last year.
Many questions remain unanswered about the attack, but the governments of Britain, the U.S. and Libya on Saturday issued a joint statement saying they will cooperate to reveal "the full facts" of the case.
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