admission, affect, aftermath, agony, Amazing Grace, anguish, Arlington House, ashes, Ave Maria, awareness
battle, bereaved, black, bleak, bouquet, breakdown, Buddhist wheel, bugle, burial
caisson, casket, cemetery, changing of the guard, chapel, church, closure, comfort, commemoration, community, compassion, comprehension, contemplation, coping, crosses
depression, despair, despondent, devastating, devotion, dignity, disaster, distress
effect, embrace, emotion, emotional, empathize, endure, enduring, engulf, eternal, eulogy, event
faith, fear, feelings, flag-draped, flowers, friends, full honors, funeral
generations, gratitude, grave, grief, grieve
hallowed, headstone, healing, heartbroken, heartfelt, heaven, helpless, honoring, humanity
impact, implications, individuals, interment, intone, invocation
Jewish star
keepsake, kneel, kneeling
lament, land, Lee House, linger
markers, memorials, memories, military, mourn, Muslim crescent and star
numb
obligation, observe, overcome
peace, personal, personnel, perspective, plot, poignant, privacy, procession
quiet
reactions, recollection, reflective, regret, regroup, relationships, remains, remembrance, respect, response, resting place, reverence, ritual, rounds, rows and rows
sacrifice, salute, security, sentiments, sentinel, serenity, service, servicemen, silence, six horses, solace, soldiers, solitude, somber, sorrow, space, suffering, support, survivors, symbols, sympathy
Taps, tears, The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, therapeutic, tour, tourists, tribute, trolley
veteran, vigil, visit
war, whispering, widow, widower, wistfulness, withdrawal, witness, woe
A Sympathy and Grief Poem:
I give you this one thought to keep,
I am with you still, I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow,
I am the diamond glint on the snow.
I am as sunlight on ripened grain,
I am the gentle autumn rain.
When you awaken in the morning hush,
I am the swift uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circled flight,
I am the soft stars that shine at night.
Do not think of me as gone,
I am with you still in each new dawn.
A teacher participant said that Judy Collins offers some ideas for coping with a devastating loss such as an unexpected death in her new book, The Seven Ts: Finding Hope and Healing in the Wake of Tragedy.
Truth, Trust, Therapy, Treasure, Treat, Thrive, Transcend
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