Word: sorrowful
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...relatives were told the men had died when a prison ship carrying them was sunk. "We only found out in 1997 what really happened," says June Woods, 69, whose father Alfred Burgess was one of the victims. "The government should have held the Japanese responsible." Sixty years on, the sorrow of her loss is deepened by the sense of betrayal she feels. "It was definitely covered up. There's got to be hundreds more that don't even know their dads were on that island. I think it's awful not to know...
...things at home and put most of them in storage. "We grieved in totally different ways," Cindy says. "He wanted to grieve by distracting himself. I wanted to immerse myself." A car tinkerer, he added two 1969 VW Bugs to his collection recently and diverted some of his sorrow into them. The couple separated in June...
...should own up to all the war crimes its armed forces committed prior to that. Lisa Ahlqvist Copenhagen As a student ambassador to Japan a few years ago, I visited Hiroshima and placed 1,000 paper cranes as an offering at the Peace Memorial. I realized that emotions of sorrow are universal. Once you stand in a place that has suffered as much as Hiroshima, you understand that world peace is not some cliché idea. Trisha Saha Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S. I am the same age as Sakaru Takigawa, one of the men whose picture was included in your...
...student ambassador to Japan a few years ago, I visited Hiroshima and placed 1,000 paper cranes as an offering at the Peace Memorial. I realized that emotions of sorrow are universal. Once you stand in a place that has suffered as much as Hiroshima, you understand that world peace is not some cliché idea...
...Lincoln's mother Nancy dies from "milk sickness" after drinking milk from a cow that has eaten poisonous snakeroot. Lincoln would later write of sorrow coming to him with "bitterest agony" when he was young...