Word: griefs
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...public arm wrestling is oddly consoling. No one argued about much of anything on Sept. 11; we were truly united, in shock and grief, and lingered there a while, finding safety in numbers. But it was disturbing to watch censors enforce intellectual curfews and hear of fights over the proper way to display an American flag. If people feel safe enough to argue in public again, maybe things really are moving back to normal...
...thought was for the children who were orphaned; the second was for the pets left behind by this terrible tragedy. I know the human toll is beyond understanding, but these people loved their pets, and the animals adored them. What an amazing man Hawk is to put aside his grief over the loss of his sister aboard American Airlines Flight 11 and focus on the care of animals so in need of his help. REBECCA WHIPPLE Lakeland...
...that the terrorists "targeted ordinary civilians...working in their offices, walking on the streets." She might have noted that the U.S. targeted and killed immense numbers of civilians when we used atom bombs on two Japanese cities at the end of World War II. In the midst of our grief and outrage, Americans need to examine our conscience and perhaps thereby temper the magnitude of the U.S. response with the humane values of justice, proportion and compassion. BILL EVANS Pueblo, Colo...
...leader, the one who weeps with the families of victims. Cheney plans to visit New York City, but he has told aides that he's not particularly comfortable with the emotional stuff. He would rather influence policy from behind the scenes than try to share in the nation's grief. As he told an adviser, "I'm not good at funerals...
...their freshness must be that they offer a view of a life few Westerners understand, in a way that emphasizes its beauty and passion rather than its oppression. But her work is not simple reportage. The people in her videos are vehicles for expressing universal human emotions: desire, love, grief, loneliness...