Word: mourning
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...even with the fortitude to continue on in spite of tragedy, America pauses in the journey to mourn the heroes we have lost. And we do not lament alone, for this was an international tragedy. The hauntingly horrid vision of the Columbia’s archangelic descent was seen around the world...
...through Eastern Europe--millions of refugees were forced to flee west as the doomed Wehrmacht fought with an almost demented bravery to defend them. It is as an act of recovering German suffering that Crabwalk, the new novel by Gunter Grass, is worth reading. "We have a right to mourn our dead," Grass said to me when I visited his home earlier this year, "despite the crimes that we committed...
...little surprise to those familiar with Czech history. In 1969, 28 Czech residents set fire to themselves in the 31?2 months after Palach's death, which brought some 200,000 people into Wenceslas Square to light candles and lay flowers. Thirty-four years later, relatively few came to mourn Adamec. But his death and the copycat immolations that followed have become a kind of Czech Rorschach test, as people seek and find explanations that may have more to do with themselves than with the suicides...
...government has declared a military victory in Iraq. As a patriot, I will not celebrate. I will mourn the dead—the American GIs, and also the Iraqi dead, of which there have been many, many more...
...will mourn the Iraqi children, not just those who are dead, but those who have been be blinded, crippled, disfigured, or traumatized, like the bombed children of Afghanistan who, as reported by American visitors, lost their power of speech. We have not been given in the American media (we would need to read the foreign press) a full picture of the human suffering caused by our bombing...