If you are not yet familiar with the work of Suse Lowenstein and her sculpture, Dark Elegy, currently in Montauk, please read on. Sometimes being a parent or caregiver is bittersweet as we must deal with the realities of what this world gives and sometimes takes from us.
On the rainy, foggy morning of September 12th, I had the opportunity to visit the memorial, Dark Elegy, a tribute to those that died on the Pan Am Flight 103 and to those who had to live on after losing one of these victims. Many of us remember this as the Flight over Lockerbie, Scotland that was brought down in 1988 by a terrorist bombing. Suse son, Alexander Lowenstein, was one of the many victims on that flight. He was 21 years of age.
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