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...Grief cycled through their neighborhood on the south shore of Staten Island, an enclave of starter homes colonized several decades ago by fire fighters and policemen. Mike and his three siblings grew up there, and he never left. In the days and weeks after, when E.J. steeled herself by going to Mass, priests reversed bans on cell phones in church, just in case there was any good news. Mike's two young nephews, Christopher, 12, and Brandon, 7, attend St. Clare's School, a nearby Catholic day school connected to a church that has been burying firemen for months...
...next day, he went to the Red Cross tent, where a Navy chaplain told him about the family-support center at the Sheraton across from the Pentagon. Sincock had never done any grief counseling before, but, in a way, his own loss made him the truest form of grief counselor. Those who visited the center came to see him as a hero. "All I could do was share my own story with them," he says. "Tell them what I've found. And that there is hope." After Sincock's first day there, Lieut. General John Van Alstyne...
During those first weeks, Sincock realized that the families' grief would last far longer than the support center would exist (it closed two months ago). He had heard about a website still being used by the families of those who perished in the ValuJet crash five years ago, and he decided to launch pentagonangels.net It is not a tribute to the fallen, or a place to make donations, but rather a place for the families of those who died on the plane or in the Pentagon to share stories and begin to heal. It also offers practical advice. Sincock restricts...
...wives. First Dorothy Goetz, the sister of songwriter Ray Goetz. Her marriage to Berlin was brief: she died of pneumonia barely five months past her wedding day. The song he wrote to commemorate her, "When I Lost You," became his second #1 hit. (Berlin couldn't help turning grief into greenbacks...
...surviving relatives, who must make up their minds in the critical hours after brain death has been declared. There are as many as 50 body parts, from your skin to your corneas, that can save or transform the life of a potential recipient, but for many families lost in grief, the idea of dismembering a loved one is more than they can bear...