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This past Sunday was the annual New York City Marathon. As helicopters flew overhead and police barricaded street corners, painful reminders of a city under siege, runners clad in starred and striped shorts and T-shirts turned 26 miles of raw endurance into a communal exercise of grief. Firefighters ran for lost brothers, husbands for lost wives, friends for lost friends. The marathon’s motto, “United We Run,” captured the spirit of the event. Never, perhaps, has the image of 30,000—Canadians, Ethiopians, and New Yorkers among them?...
...victims. Yet it was the runners without pictures, T-shirts and badges, those who were simply running for themselves, who intrigued me most. As they looked towards the gulf of empty space in the skyline, their faces were marked with a similar expression of sorrow. For those without the grief of losing loved ones, what is it that we mourn...
These tables and shelves feature books with subjects ranging from more intellectual histories of Islam and national security to works dealing with anger and grief management, in addition to books on anthrax, foreign policy and Manhattan architecture...
...similar fashion, Americans are uniting now to deal with the security crisis and with the sense of grief many Americans are facing, Jackson says...
Experts say children directly involved in the tragedy are likely to experience flashbacks, intense grief and despair. If kids are unable to process the event emotionally, psychologists look for a delayed stress response. Parents and teachers should watch for anxiety, difficulty concentrating, aggressive behavior or withdrawal, stomachaches, headaches and sleeplessness. Regressive behaviors might surface--children sleeping in their parents' bed or with the lights on. Phobias might appear--about airplanes, for instance, or tall buildings. Post-traumatic stress disorder, the most severe form of delayed stress, can occur years later. Similar symptoms, only more intense and longer lasting, require intensive...