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...unfortunate reality of journalism that while others mourn, we work. The reporter on the job takes a kind of refuge in that duty?the horror and suffering that would usually paralyze a bystander become objects of study and inquiry, details and incidents to be recounted so that the reader better comprehends what really happened. The criticism most often hurled at the profession?that it is parasitic?is mistaken. The journalist's task is to understand, and sometimes that means getting close enough to see the tears and hear the sobbing. The bombings in Bali were the kind of story...
Then, at 2 a.m., I put on “Bull Durham” and began to let myself mourn, just a bit. Two things quickly became obvious...
When a diner at a Georgia restaurant overheard three men who looked Middle Eastern joking that Americans "mourned on 9/11, and they're going to mourn again on 9/13," she did just what President Bush has asked Americans to do: she told authorities. Within hours the men were detained, and a 20-mile stretch of Florida highway was closed as their cars were searched. After 17 hours police released the men, who turned out to be medical students traveling to a course in Miami. Two of them are U.S. citizens, and the other holds a valid visa. The students later...
...YORK—They came to mourn the loss of family, friends and, for many New Yorkers in the crowd, two towers that had come to symbolize everything they love about their city...
...Tercentenary Theater once again this year, as we listen to the bells of Memorial Church and remember what we have lost and what we have learned, we must also reaffirm what makes America strong—our commitment to civil liberties and to responsible actions abroad. Today we mourn, but we must not lose the values that we hold dear...