Word: mourning
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...assigned us a challenge that we cannot meet successfully," he said. "Though we regret the mistakes we have made in this war, they must not cause us self-doubt. We must learn from them, as Americans have always learned from our mistakes, and fight smarter and harder. Though we mourn the losses we have already incurred in this war, we must not let our grief weary us so that we cannot do the work that is ours to do." Those last three sentences were language that he might also have applied to his faltering campaign...
...time New Yorkers. Dominic's on Arthur Avenue in the Bronx has been there as long as I can remember (I'm 75), and great food is always on hand. Unfortunately, you will not find butternut-squash dumplings, but the stuffed artichokes are to die for. And I still mourn the loss of Sloppy Louie's at South and Fulton streets, where I learned to eat fish. It served a bouillabaisse that was extraordinary. There were others, but why belabor the point? And that's only in New York City...
...occupiers. They were certainly not defenseless. God knows how many Iraqis they killed with their bullets. Scores of ordinary citizens die each day because of U.S. folly. I won't shed any tears for the six Americans, since they should have been at home with their families who now mourn them. All my tears and sympathies are for the ordinary, nameless Iraqis. Zameer Alam Khan, Lahore, Pakistan...
...occupiers. They were certainly not defenseless. God knows how many Iraqis they killed with their bullets. Scores of ordinary citizens die each day because of U.S. folly. I won't shed any tears for the six Americans, since they should have been at home with their families who now mourn them. All my tears and sympathies are for the ordinary, nameless Iraqis. Zameer Alam Khan, LAHORE PAKISTAN...
...have been able to mourn Amer in the customary way, but like countless Iraqis who have lost loved ones to violence, Azhour's grieving has just begun...