HOBOKEN United Synagogue of Hoboken (115 Park Ave).; noon, brief memorial and candle-lighting ceremony; open all day for remembrance.
Two weeks ago, I wrote a brief article in remembrance of Abdul Rahman al-Amri, a Saudi prisoner at Guantánamo, and a long-term hunger striker, who died on May 30 , 2007 apparently by committing suicide.
For some conservatives, the churchwide Alcohol Free Lent campaign is a welcome reminder of the Methodists' temperance heritage -- "a brief flicker of remembrance of those origins," said Mark Tooley, president of the Institute on Religion and Democracy and author of Taking Back the United Methodist Church.
But the day itself began with a positive act of remembrance; a brief event to remember Elena Baltacha, the former British No1 who died of liver cancer aged 30 in May.
The brief, informal ceremony includes remembrances of Mr. Hopkins, the presentation of a wreath and brief remarks.
We started there, and even that wasn't simple: We selected every piece labeled Obituary or in the Obituaries section, and then had to exclude paid death notices, duplicate articles, remembrances, briefs and other things that look like obits but really are not.
Churchill's brief obituary was part of a longer remembrance of Brooke by the politician's private secretary, Edward Marsh, a patron of the arts who became Brooke's literary executor.
But during white-minority rule remembrance faded, apart from a brief interlude in the 1980s as the apartheid-era government sought to remind foreign critics of South Africa's role in fighting for the "free world".Today, the site of Delville Wood is a memorial to fallen South Africans.
"Let us celebrate Jackie," says comedian Alison Rich, in a skit that supposes Jackie Chan has died, "but let us also remember to celebrate me". Brief exclamations of sorrow often precede lengthy remembrances.
