He was the captain of the soccer team, a member of the drama club and the Army ROTC.
He was one of 259 passengers on the fateful Pan Am Flight 103, which was bombed over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988, killing all those on board and 11 people on the ground. The 21-year-old had been a student at Syracuse University, after graduating from Keystone Junior College where he was involved in a range of campus activities.
Timothy Cardwell, along with 34 other Syracuse classmates killed in the terrorist attack, will be honored today in a remembrance ceremony at the university in New York.
Syracuse University students honor the memory of their fallen peers each year, and in the final rose-laying ceremony today, Juliann Merryman, 21, of Bear Creek, will represent Mr. Cardwell. She and fellow Remembrance Scholars will lay roses on the university's Remembrance Wall and speak briefly about the student each represents.
"It's the culmination of Remembrance Week," she said, adding that a candlelight vigil, an open mic celebration of life and other events had been held throughout the week.
The connection has added meaning for Ms. Merryman, whose mother, Dr. Nancy Merryman, is an associate professor at Keystone College, the college Mr. Cardwell attended before he became a Syracuse student.
A Middle Eastern Studies and International Relations dual major, the senior said she has always been interested in participating in Remembrance Week.
"More than ever, it's a reminder to Syracuse, to the different areas that we each are from and to the nation as a whole ... of the importance of conflict mediation and the importance of resolving international conflict peacefully," she said.
Ms. Merryman will receive a $5,000 scholarship as part of the Remembrance Scholar award. The rose-laying ceremony will be held today at 2:03 p.m., the same time of the bombing nearly 24 years ago.
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