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...names of all who died in a whole war; they are not even the names of all who died on a single battlefield. They commemorate the Britons, together with about 13,000 Canadians and Australians, who died at Ypres between 1914 and August 1917 and have no marked grave. (A separate memorial lists an additional 34,927 - also without marked graves - who died at Ypres the following year...
Brent's father Ray had opened the crematory in 1982, expanding on his grave-digging business. The Marsh family was among the most prominent of the few African-American families in the area. Ray's wife Clara--known as "Preacher Clara"--taught in public schools for more than 30 years. In 1995 she was selected as Walker County's Citizen of the Year. Incredibly, Ray even ran for county coroner in 1992. (He lost.) When he became ill with heart disease in the mid-1990s, Brent returned home from the University of Tennessee in Chattanooga, where he played football...
...procession advances to the Pious Martyr's Cemetery, an ancient necropolis sloping into a lake, the assembled ministers appear dutifully mournful. Beside the open grave, Karzai pledges that Rahman's murder won't go unpunished. It's a charged moment: many of the funeral-goers were openly hostile toward Rahman. Some believe that they should be the rulers of Afghanistan and that Karzai stands in their path. When it's time to leave, Karzai strides briskly out among the tombstones. Hustling along behind him, with their bayonets and greatcoats, the guards resemble a 19th century army retreating through the cemetery...
...they still don't get it. Yes, Cardinal Law has formally apologized. But his reckoning was carefully parsed. "In retrospect," Law said in his formal statement, the "response of the archdiocese to the grave evil...was flawed and inadequate." In retrospect? By what conceivable moral argument could ignoring child abuse be deemed at any time acceptable? "In retrospect," he also said, he had put children in danger, "albeit unintentionally." How can a church demand moral responsibility of its members if its leaders cannot do so when unmitigated evil is standing right in front of them...
...Puerto Rico mailing address on the letters page, though, the suspense is ruptured. But the reason you read "True Story" is its vulnerability. It has completely let its guard down, as I suppose you need to do to fall in love. So we see Tom visiting his parent's grave and talking to them, and when Lily arrives in California for a visit he simply admits, "I'm so happy I could cry right now. Hell... I probably...