"I am extremely saddened that this commemoration, even though it is belated and for bodies which have already been buried, is not being held in Lampedusa," the island's mayor, Giusi Nicolini, told La Repubblica, saying she would not be attending Monday's ceremony as she had an appointment in Rome with the Italian president.
There was that time the White House forgot to invite our Queen to some D-Day commemorations, even though she was the one head of state actually to have done some service during the Second World War (okay, it did not amount to much more than changing a few spark plugs on Bedford lorries, but at least she wore a trim uniform).
"Even though, in many ways, it is".
You can provide a small commemoration, even if she doesn't mention wanting to do anything.
I think it is good to commemorate what happened, even though during the commemorations my mother is always traumatised.
Yet the White House itself has yet to establish an official commemoration, such as a plaque, even though the White House lawn is the gravesite of at least eighteen members and loved ones of ACT UP, the group directly responsible for speeding up the approval process of new drugs, forcing companies to slash the prices of old drugs, and saving countless lives.
According to Polish daily newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza, Rybak claimed the commemoration ignored the 70,000 Poles killed alongside the 1 million Jews there — even though the memorial paid homage to all those murdered at the site.
Australia's spending on commemoration during the four years of Anzac 100 (this country's official commemorative program) has dwarfed that of other participant nations in World War I, even though other countries experienced many more combatant and civilian deaths.
Few people noticed past commemorations of Hungary or the Czech Republic and even last year's "Year of Algeria" passed nearly unnoticed by most French, even though France has millions of Algerian residents or citizens of Algerian descent.
And even though Israelis had expected some sort of revenge attack after Hebron, they were still outraged when it finally came, especially as they devoted today to annual commemorations of the six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust.
Even though Egyptian Pres.
