Crosspostish. Observing the day
These 18 min remarks / ceremony were at 6 this evening (start at timestamp 30:30). I found it moving because as noted in this NPR remembrance, national communal grief for this national loss is sadly fairly new.
President Biden's words were also well-timed for me on a personal level. I have not lost anybody to covid. But today was my father's yartzeit, the anniversary of his death on the lunar Hebrew calendar*, and there was comfort in these short remarks I did not expect.
Edit: Washington Post story
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*Because he died during the second iteration of the month of Adar, it is sometimes be in February and sometimes in March, and my aunt's reminder yesterday came as rather the surprise. This entry was originally posted at https://vvalkyri.dreamwidth.org/1768432.html. You can add to the
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