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Harvard alums who are war veterans and current members of the Reserve Officers Training Corps carried a laurel wreath from the altar of the church into the church’s Memorial Room. They placed the wreath beneath the monuments and the names of the members of the University killed in World...
Purple leis were given to the family members so they might wear them or leave them at the site. In Hawaii, in the event of a funeral or death, it is traditional to present a lei in place of a floral wreath...
...army had destroyed all buildings except the main office, which now houses a small, tasteful exhibition explaining what happened and showing items such as scalpels and poison gas canisters. Curator Wang Peng says Shinozuka told him how sorry he was for what he had done and had laid a wreath at a memorial to 86 of the known victims. "If the Japanese government could do that, the Chinese people could forgive," says Wang...
...Houses of Parliament. As black-tied, black-suited TV presenters on every channel pointed out, it was a splendid event, the biggest display of pageantry since Winston Churchill's funeral in 1965. Draped in the Queen Mother's standard, topped by her diamond-encrusted crown and a single wreath of white roses and freesias from her daughter bearing the simple message, "In loving memory, Lilibet," the coffin was borne through crowd-lined streets on a gun carriage. Behind it walked 14 members of the royal family, including Princes William and Harry and, breaking the all-male precedent, Princess Anne. Inside...
Today I'm sitting here on the infield in Rockingham, N.C., where we park our motor coaches. Dale parks next to me, always has. Now there's just an empty spot over there with a wreath laid over it. I'll always regret that I never got to say goodbye to Dale. In some ways, it took Daytona to make me realize how much he meant...