Word: sorrowful
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...about the place. A natural color coder, she appreciated the daily structure that challenged cadets to make the most of every moment. That West Point life recovered its routines quickly after 9/11--albeit with a new, underlying urgency--seemed right to her: the civilian world got too wrapped up in sorrow and memory and nerves rubbed raw. "I think one of the things that made people so sad outside of West Point," she says, "was that they simply were kicked off of their routines...
...left the world a better place than he found it, but that is so often not true. The greatness of John Paul II's papacy is that he genuinely influenced the world for the better. Dan Stewart Ashburn, Virginia, U.S. I am puzzled by the worldwide emotional reactions of sorrow and emptiness caused by the Pope's death. True believers should realize that his suffering has ended and he is home now with God. I understand a certain degree of nostalgia, but for people to focus collectively on the worldly death rather than the rewards of heaven tells me that...
...became victims of a bomb blast and were rushed to Yarmouk Hospital. From that point on, I was intimately involved in nearly every decision the doctors and staff made as they struggled to keep my badly wounded colleagues alive. In the process, I experienced the anger, anxiety, frustration and sorrow that so many Iraqis must endure, often in far greater measure, on a daily basis. For every story like ours--which turned out better than we could ever have hoped--there are dozens of others at the ER that end in quiet tragedy...
...that our lives loop and twist from age to age. The baby toddles into childhood, the child erupts into a teen, then a woman, who by the time she has passed 40 is long overdue to shed her skin again. That shedding can be traumatic, treacherous, born of sorrow or stress; but to hear the prophets of personal reinvention tell it, it may also be an unexpected gift. With that endearing sense of discovery that baby boomers bring to the most enduring experiences - like growing up or finding God or burning out - women are confronting the obstacles of middle...
...fear and desperation are now prospering, despite the continued bungling of the Communist government they understandably despise? And what about the millions of Vietnamese and tens of thousands of Americans who lost their lives in the war to keep the Communists at bay? Was all that death and sorrow worth it? I don't know. That's still difficult...