Word: mournings
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...immediate aftermath of this disaster, fire fighters paused to mourn their fallen comrades and to try to explain, to themselves and others, what it is about their work that proves so attractive and sometimes so fatal. On the playing field of the Glenwood Springs Middle School, fresh crews assembled the day after the blowup, waiting to relieve those who were still trying to extinguish the deadly Storm King fire. John Murray, boss of the Chief Mountain Hotshots, a Blackfoot Indian contingent out of Browning, Montana, mused, "The fire gets in your blood. You want to seek out danger and defeat...
...necessary to deal with some Tim Rice lyrics (which make me mourn Howard Ashman even more every time I hear them). Yes, the songs seem a bit gimmicky at times. But they're good. I can't really describe them will, but take my word for it, the music is powerful and moving...
...every life there is so much to celebrate, so much to mourn. In his last days, Dennis Potter did both. Triumphantly, he finished his two plays -- two final blossoms soaked in acid. And he nursed his wife until she died. A week later, disconsolate, Potter followed her, with blood in his eyes and stars in his crown...
Fifty years later, veterans of the Allied forces who defeated Nazi Germany are invading Normandy again to gaze at the beaches they stormed, walk the sunken roads they fought over, mourn at the military cemeteries, but most of all, celebrate their triumph. On the next big anniversary 10 years hence, most of these old soldiers -- and many of those who lived through the cataclysm of World War II -- will be gone...
...last link to a certain kind of past, and that is part, but only part, of why we mourn so. Jackie Kennedy symbolized -- she was a connection to a time, to an old America that was more dignified, more private, an America in which standards were higher and clearer and elegance meant something, a time when elegance was a kind of statement, a way of dressing up the world, and so a generous act. She had manners, the kind that remind us that manners spring from a certain moral view -- that you do tribute to the world and the people...