Word: cenotaphs
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Mahmoud's tomb is indeed spacious, largely a ceremonial room built by a 19th century nobleman named Khanzouri. In a smaller side room, which contains Khanzouri's marble cenotaph, Mahmoud's wife hangs the laundry. "The children were born here," Mahmoud adds, "so they are not afraid...
...have come as a pilgrim for peace," I he announced. Later, clad in white, he knelt before the cenotaph to the 140,000 people killed as a result of the first bomb that fell on Hiroshima. Then he rose, and as the eternal flame burned behind him, the Roma Hoo (Pope) last week spoke forcefully and with an edge of anger reminiscent of the biblical prophets: "The final balance of the human suffering that began here has not been fully drawn up, nor has the total human cost been tallied, especially when one sees what nuclear war has done...
...That Championship Season, a drama of searing intensity, agonized compassion and consummate craftsmanship. The play centers on the 20th reunion of a handful of men whose lives were once fresh as mountain springs and now resemble the sooty detritus of a city gutter. A silver trophy stands as a cenotaph for their one moment of glory, when they won a high school basketball title...
...Hiroshima Mayor Setsuo Yamada asked the U.S. embassy in Tokyo for information about the American victims. None was forthcoming. "If it is only possible to get any of these identified," he says, "I would ask our municipal assembly to take steps to enable us to enshrine them in the cenotaph in our Peace Park...
...Americans caught in the bombing. Washington's National Archives, however, recently declassified its records, which show that there were roughly 20 American P.O.W.s in Hiroshima; the names of only eight of those killed are known. In time, it could be that those eight will be memorialized in the cenotaph, which bears the words...