Air India Flight 182

'Let's make a commitment to giving this tragedy the place it deserves in our national consciousness,' writes Sean Patrick Dolan.

Meanwhile, it took fifteen years to charge the other alleged conspirators (which ended in an acquittal) and over twenty years for the government to agree to a full public inquiry—this after years of pleading by the families of the victims. They said it was part of their protocol and blamed the RCMP for not securing the tapes in a timely fashion. Thirty-two persons were left alone; the spouse and all the children were gone. There were no Canadian representatives there to comfort the families. Relegated to a footnote, Air India has failed to inspire the outrage, empathy, and attention it deserves. Prime Minister Brian Mulroney called Indian Prime Minister Rajeev Gandhi to express his condolences, even though 280 of the 329 victims were Canadian.