ABSTRACT
There is a sculpture titled Dark Elegy commemorating the destruction by a terrorist bomb of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. The sculpture attempts to depict the agonizing grief of the 33 mothers who lost children on that flight. In many ways, the memorial also illustrates the paradox of male grievers. On one hand, they are expected to be strong; their grief is largely, as in the sculpture, silent and formless. On the other hand, they are castigated for not demonstratively showing their grief, a fact touched upon in Chapter 1.
