EMMAUS, Pa. - Emmaus High School graduate Scott Saunders was one of the 270 people killed in the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing on December 21, 1988. His father talks about what the new charges mean in the bombing more than three decades later.
Every year on December 21, a group of families get together at Arlington National Cemetery. On this day at 2:03 p.m., which is when the bomb detonated..
Mack Saunders begins his story, with a pause. Because it s hard to get through it, even 32 years later. Excuse me, he says, drawing in a deep breath.
Mack Saunders is the father of Scott Saunders. Scott was 21-years-old, a senior in college, returning from a study abroad program in London. Mack remembers him well.