The next morning, Mitchell's school assembled in the gym to begin mourning.
I usually begin mourning summer by the Fourth of July, but not this year.
Hindocha said the family were still unable to begin mourning because of the proceedings.
But a year after the nation began mourning those lives, something else is being mourned: the towers themselves.
Mr Rayhan's family believed after he failed to come home from the market that he was among that number, and began mourning him that day.
When the owner of Brooklyn's oldest bialy store, Coney Island Bialys and Bagels, announced last summer that he was closing up shop, fans began mourning the impending loss of a 91-year-old piece of Jewish culinary history.
But toward the end of the last century, as celebrity culture rose, people began mourning for famous people whom they did not know, like John Lennon or Diana, more expressively than they grieved for their own family members.
As his family and friends in this Philadelphia suburb began mourning Mr. Berg's death, they also struggled to sort out the complicated and still murky circumstances of his beheading.
A troop of langur monkeys in India mistook a lookalike robotic camera for one of its own, and began mourning for it after believing it had died.
"Though we were praying for a different outcome, we are relieved to have this part of the investigation behind us and to be able to begin mourning the loss of our sweet girl," the statement said.
