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...hour news cycle gives Bush nowhere to hide. It amplified his uncertainties in the first hours of the crisis. But it also let everyone hear his perfect pitch in the Washington National Cathedral on Friday, as he evoked "a kinship of grief and a steadfast resolve to prevail against our enemies." His smallest decisions are now freighted with history and symbolism. As aides debated whether he should return to the White House on Tuesday in a customary helicopter or in a more secure motorcade, the President made the call: "We're going back the way we normally go back." This...
...GRIEFNET This online grief-support network offers an integrated approach for people working through loss and grief issues of all kinds. Its companion site, KIDSAID, provides a safe environment for children and their parents to seek information and ask questions www.griefnet.org www.kidsaid.com...
...three places that were hit by the hijacked planes, New York City suffered by far the greatest emotional damage. As soon as the scope of the disaster became clear, grief counselors went on duty in hospitals and emergency centers around the city. The most severely shaken people were those who had been in or around the World Trade Center and survived the explosions. At least 300 of the injured immediately flooded St. Vincent's Hospital, and at least 100 of them, says orthopedist Andrew Feldman, who worked in the emergency room, were "over the top--crying, becoming belligerent, trying...
...this kind of clutching at strands of hope that helps define the early stages of grief and shock. In most cases the grieving move on, following familiar steps that include anger, depression and, finally, acceptance. Last week's blasts, however, may have ripped out that recovery route. "A woman kisses her husband goodbye, and the next thing she sees, the whole damn building falls down," says psychiatrist Marvin Lipkowitz of Brooklyn's Maimonides Medical Center. "There's a limit to what the mind can take...
...emotional focus. Tamar Kaman, a cosmetics marketer who lives three blocks away, cried as she added flowers to the pile. "This is as close as I've gotten to some of the victims," she said. "Whether or not I can identify all the faces, I feel connected to the grief somehow." This is what a firehouse does in a time of disaster. First it puts out flames. And then it generates warmth. --By James Poniewozik. Reported by Harriet Barovick...