Word: mourning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only be achieved by adding to the suffering of humanity. In the end, even our lives will not be enriched unless positive action is taken to alleviate the causes of suffering and resentment in the Middle East and in the U.S., the killing will continue. Unless we learn to mourn for our victims, for all victims, we will lose our own human dignity. Jonathan Dresner
There is nothing wrong with feeling relieved. It is not required, it is not human nature, to mourn the soldiers who were arrayed to kill you. Killing the Iraqis meant that Americans and their partners did not have to face them on the battlefield and maybe die. As it was, the Iraqis who were left in the field surrendered almost without a fight...
Though some, like judge Erika Gruner, spring from proletariat homes, they have all in some way risen to the highest occupational or intellectual rungs of the country. The reader should therefore not be surprised that many of those Borneman interviewed mourn the foregone possibilities of socialism and the progress left behind. On the positive side, the lean toward intellectuals blesses this book with an overview of East German society to which the working class might not have had access...
...recoil when the inevitable bad news hits. Defense Secretary Dick Cheney warned, "A military operation of this intensity and complexity cannot be scored every evening like a college track meet or a basketball game." What other choice do we have but to tot up the bombing sorties, mourn the downed flyers and pray for the best...
Linda Lehman, 43, a mother of two from Newville, Pa., received two silicone implants last February, three months after undergoing double mastectomies. That summer she went out and bought a new two-piece swimsuit. "Losing your breasts is a terrible experience," she says. "You mourn the loss. You have the same phantom feelings as when you lose a limb." The implants, she says, have restored her spirit along with her figure. "I wear more revealing clothing than before, and I've never looked better...