Word: spirits
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...Bush years; it began as a eulogy, then was used as a campaign song by both John Kerry and Obama. Now it played as if America was looking back to the early days after 9/11 and asking for a do-over, to return to the moment before that communal spirit curdled into acrimony...
...deal with concussions--just 42% do, according to the National Athletic Trainers' Association. In some instances, overcompetitive coaches, who are not required to be trained in concussion management, are pushing players back onto the field. And too often the players themselves aren't reporting head trauma, with team spirit giving them too much of a warrior mentality...
...walked around Washington the day before the Inauguration, and the spirit in the city felt like a calm celebration of democracy--people walking around their capital, celebrating their President, marking their victory. But it did not feel like a victory of party or partisanship so much as a celebration of the simplest and yet most transcendent act of citizenship--going into a voting both and pulling a lever and honoring the result...
...responsibility - a recognition, on the part of every American, that we have duties to ourselves, our nation, and the world, duties that we do not grudgingly accept but rather seize gladly, firm in the knowledge that there is nothing so satisfying to the spirit, so defining of our character, than giving our all to a difficult task...
...this very hour, patrol far-off deserts and distant mountains. They have something to tell us today, just as the fallen heroes who lie in Arlington whisper through the ages. We honor them not only because they are guardians of our liberty, but because they embody the spirit of service; a willingness to find meaning in something greater than themselves. And yet, at this moment - a moment that will define a generation - it is precisely this spirit that must inhabit...