Saturday, December 20th, 2008
Tomorrow is the 20th anniversary of the crash of PanAm 103 over Lockerbie in Scotland. I think about it from time to time. At the time, 1903 at night, I was unaware of it but I learned in the morning. Our boss called a group of us into his office and told us that a colleague had died on it.
His name was Greg Kosmowski and he was our US Marketing Manager based in Troy, a part of greater Detroit. I was never close to Greg and only that day I had a big argument with him about his cross charges for US office support. Understandably, they were never resolved.
Greg was a devout Christian and father but he did not need to take that flight. He wanted to be home as soon as poss to see his kids so he took that flight to JFK and from there he could get a connection to Detroit which might have got him home soon after midnight.
Jim somebody, his colleague, stayed overnight in London and went home the following day.
Such is life and there but for the grace of God ...........
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I knew Greg too. He hired me in 1979 when we worked for Bosch. He had a lovely wife and family and I can confirm he was truly a great guy. I was deeply saddened and moved by his loss, and feel especially bad for his family.
Thank God that the USA had the resources to do all of the research needed to piece together the cause and track down at least one of the bombers of Pan Am 103… that was an amazing accomplishment.
I know that nothing will ever be able to fill the void left in our hearts when someone like Greg is taken from us so wantonly, but I pray that his wife and children and their extended family has been able to live the kinds of life he would have wanted for them in spite of his loss.
While nothing earthly can replace Greg or compensate us for his loss, the key to justice is not in mere retribution but in doing whatever we can to ensure that such heinous acts can never happen again. As of this morning, 2/22/2011, it is looking like Gadhafi will be overthrown soon. Hopefully the US can gain access to Libya’s secret files on this and many other terrorist activities and do even more to ensure that terrorists are brought to justice.
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