As we celebrate Friday night with the opening ceremonies of the 2012 Olympic games, there is a sad reflection.
It was 16 years ago, Friday night, that a bomb blast killed an Albany woman in Olympic Park in Atlanta.
44-year old Alice Hawthorne died when a pipe-bomb loaded with nails exploded during a concert in Centennial Olympic Park.
The blast injured more than 100 others.
Hawthorne grew up in Albany and graduated from ASU in 1994.
She and her daughter, then 14-year old Fallon Stubbs, were attending a concert during the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta when she was killed.
Hawthorne was State Representative Winfred Duke's campaign manager.
Duke calls the 16 years she's been gone, bittersweet.
"It really gives me the opportunity to be saddened by the fact that such a special person left us way too soon. Then on the other hand it was an opportunity to be glad that you had met such a beautiful spirit," said dukes
Bomber Eric Rudolph is now serving a life sentence for that attack.
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