Within the incredible archives held at Syracuse are a plethora of documents in which the contraction is laid bare: the victims' families consistently emphasized their appreciation and debt to the people of Scotland, whilst campaigning for justice and the prevention of a similar tragedy occurring again.Suse Lowenstein, for example, revealed at the time how her son Alexander's remains were returned to the John F. Kennedy Airport at an area used for handling livestock.Neither Pan Am nor the US government sent a representative, and she felt that 'they showed us no dignity and respect.'By contrast, she stressed her gratitude to the Scottish police and the people of Lockerbie for their heartfelt condolences and their efforts to recover the personal effects of the victims. 3 Similar experiences and sentiments thread throughout the collection.It is testament to the work done by Poet in Small Acts of Love that I (Clark) did not learn anything new; this is not a critique, as the vast majority of the intended audience would not have worked with these archive materials, but nor did anything feel inappropriately like creative license.Rather, Small Acts tells an incredible, almost unbelievable, story, but is rooted in solid historical research and an understanding of the people involved.
Emma Pearce (Mon,) studied this question.