She carried tragedy within her – she had tragic eyes – always – even as a little girl – but we loved her enormously, there was something mighty about her – she was our Conscience".
In 2007, the year a gunman shot 32 people dead at Virginia Tech, Republican candidates discussed whether, had students been allowed to carry guns, "the tragedy might have been lessened", as a moderator put it.
We know how to pull ourselves up by the boot straps and carry on when tragedy strikes.
I have seen most human emotions in all their humor and tragedy carried to completion.
Other agencies often provide this evidence and if safeguarding is not carried out correctly, tragedy can occur.
His first wife, a professional pianist, died in childbirth, but Michael Andrew Bane, the son born of that tragedy, carried on traits of the mother he never knew.
He was sighing and shaking his head and, for those of us who saw it, in the daft high emotion of the time, it seemed as if he was carrying the historic tragedy of Scottish football on his shoulders and at his feet.
In the 23 years that followed, time after time castigated as a cause of the tragedy; carrying the guilt of survival; knowing, as did everyone in Liverpool, "the truth" but condemned as self-pitying and told to "get over it" when any attempt to disseminate the truth was made; and taking every opportunity to show his solidarity with the families of the 96 in their search for justice.
The tragedy carried huge significance, as Winston Churchill later described: "In spite of all its horror, we must regard the sinking of the Lusitania as an event most important and favourable to the Allies.
In a statement released on Thursday following a briefing from his national security team, Obama said that the federal "investigation will continue to have the full support of the federal government and that we should leave no stone unturned in determining why and how these terrorists carried out that tragedy".
But there is something wrong when the same crime is presented in a more favorable light when carried out by French citizens and as a tragedy when carried out by Romanian citizens.
