Word: honoring
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...friend, told me how important the music of Motown had been to the troops and how they would be in the ditches and foxholes and bivouacs and their joy was to be dancing and singing Motown music. That is so wonderful to me. It's a great honor to think that those guys were comforted by my music...
...movement. Israelis became convinced that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat played a double game, talking peace but battling Israelis from within the Jewish state and the Palestinian territories. In 2000, after the collapse of the Clinton Administration's peace talks at Camp David, Arafat, claiming that Israel had failed to honor its commitments, presided over a second intifadeh. Then came the wave of suicide bombings from 2001 through mid-2002, which wreaked terror in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem...
...what it hopes will be the usual summer tourist invasion. And environmentalists intensify their campaign to add what would be the 21st butterfly to the list of protected species in the U.S. "Diverse native insects should be cause for celebration," says Rosmarino. "I would like to see Cloudcroft honor and promote its endemic checkerspot, perhaps with a butterfly festival." Cloudcroft is less enthusiastic. "Their agenda," warns Michael Nivison, the village administrator, "is to get everybody out of the forest...
...paterfamilias of the Kennedy political dynasty had billed the campaign of Barack Obama as his own crusade, perhaps his last given his battle with brain cancer. But Kennedy's image of apparent health was shattered during a celebratory lunch that took place in the Capitol's Statuary Hall in honor of the new President...
...consider the road that unfolds before us, we remember with humble gratitude those brave Americans who, at this very hour, patrol far-off deserts and distant mountains. They have something to tell us today, just as the fallen heroes who lie in Arlington whisper through the ages. We honor them not only because they are guardians of our liberty, but because they embody the spirit of service; a willingness to find meaning in something greater than themselves. And yet, at this moment - a moment that will define a generation - it is precisely this spirit that must inhabit...