Word: mournings
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...NASDAQ, despite concerns that its headquarters across from the World Trade Center site at One Liberty Plaza might collapse, has theoretically been ready for days - the economic bellwether of the last five years is little more than a massive computer. It fears no asbestos clouds, and it cannot mourn...
...York City remains, choking in soot and rubble. The city bleeds from multiple wounds; it has lost a part of itself. With the crumbling of these towers, the city has been made a victim. Terror has bonded its citizens in struggle and hope, but it has forced them to mourn...
...facilities worldwide, a day in which President George W. Bush warned that "the United States will hunt down and punish those responsible for these cowardly acts," there was nothing to do in the bright, crisp fall sunshine but to clean up, search for those responsible - and mourn the dead...
...Across the country, houses of all kinds of worship filled with grieving Americans singing America the Beautiful, wiping away streams of tears. "Humanity came apart in lower Manhattan today, and each of us is wounded. We mourn the loss of our innocence," declared Rabbi Gary Gerson at Oak Park Temple, a Reform Jewish congregation outside Chicago. "Terror has struck us, but it will not destroy us. Now we are all Israelis," he added...
...down to a single word--one piece that, because it is connected to nothing but itself, requires no larger scheme to be intelligible. And that one word would be all that the writer's life meant. Manchester can no longer make connections, thus neither can his many readers, who mourn not only him and all he had meant, but all they had been, and no longer were, and would never be again...