remembrance
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When McCain died in 2018, Graham delivered a tearful remembrance of his friend on the Senate floor and then came up to the press gallery for a question-and-answer session with reporters.
From Slate ● Jul. 14, 2026
“They felt ashamed at what they learned, channeling their emotions into a powerful remembrance movement,” writes Jeffrey Katz, the child of German-born Holocaust survivors, in “Unsettled Ground: Reflections on Germany’s Attempts to Make Amends.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
About 200 people wore red while taking part in a 5,000km run held in remembrance of Arsenal football fan Henry Nowak, the event's organiser said.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026
Some describe the day as one they move through rather than move past, marking it with rituals of remembrance that reflect both loss and endurance.
From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2026
“And wishing,” pursued Joe, with another fixed look at me, like another effort of remembrance, “that the state of Miss Havisham’s elth were sitch as would have—allowed, were it, Pip?”
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
He launches a passionate defence of preserving remembrances of the past, even if that past is "problematic" as a way of "ensuring public memory of its injustice".
From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2025
Many remembrances circulating since Reiner’s shocking murder cite the significance of Meathead and Archie Bunker’s commitment to coexist, however uncomfortable that was in such close quarters.
From Salon ● Dec. 21, 2025
Humber has since discovered a mention in an old newspaper of another baseball game played in Hamilton, Ontario, in 1819, also on militia muster day, which he says lends credence to Ford’s remembrances about Beachville.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2025
Dodger Stadium was full of remembrances Thursday for late star pitcher Fernando Valenzuela, who died on Tuesday at age 63.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2024
His focus, indeed his obsession, was the interior architecture of his own remembrances, the construction of an Adams version of American history, a spacious room of his own within the American pantheon.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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