The Nation - News from March 21, 1986
Some family members of the 248 U.S. servicemen who died last December in a charter plane crash conducted a simple prayer ceremony, ending with the Lord’s Prayer, to honor their loved ones at Washington’s Arlington National Cemetery on a windy, overcast day at the spot where 23 victims are buried. The accident occurred Dec. 12 in Newfoundland when a civilian Arrow Air DC-8 jetliner crashed shortly after takeoff at Gander airport. The troops were returning from a peacekeeping mission in the Sinai Desert.
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