Maybe next spring we'll put Craft on the docket, and they will once again have those simply prepared soft-shell crabs we've been commemorating for years.
In any case, SEALAB II's month-and-a-half-long mission is worth commemorating for the scientific, commercial and military diving spin-offs that are still with us, possibly including the Navy's clandestine practice of deploying saturation divers from submarines outfitted with the equivalent of a mini-SEALAB.
They had invited representatives from most of the countries of the world, along with a few of the Iranian exiles in the city whose exile was not caused by the very revolution the party was commemorating, for kebabs and non-alcoholic drinks.
There are more truthful, less sexy imperatives for what this package ultimately entails: venerate, validate and commemorate, for starters.
Was Psyche (black servants in Britain were often given classical names) a boxer, and is he here commemorated for his prowess in the ring?
This patch of trees, held by a brigade of white South Africans at the cost of four-fifths of its men being injured or killed, was commemorated for some decades afterwards.
Christianity, which tells the story of another Father's willingness to sacrifice his Son, sublimates the impulse to sacred violence still further, with the bloody sacrifice of the Lamb of God commemorated for the past 2,000 years in countless variations on crosses and altars, in liturgical practices and works of art.
And I was reminded of this a few weeks ago, at a special event in Dublin to commemorate – for perhaps the first time – the Irish women who took part in the Easter Rising, and to honour the involvement of Irish women in the life of the state ever since.
Some of those who were killed in the days when grand prix racing still took a regular toll of human life, notably Jim Clark and Gilles Villeneuve, were commemorated for years after their death, but none of them gripped the worldwide imagination as Senna did.
Beyond their topical context, however, Governor Cuomo's remarks ought to be commemorated for their greater political context.
The Gunpowder Plot was commemorated for years by special sermons and other public acts, such as the ringing of church bells.
