'I wondered whether the Moonwalkers had reconciled themselves to being Earthbound; whether they'd made peace with their world or continued to mourn their strangled hopes,' says Smith as he begins his quest.
"It is very hard for an American citizen to think something like that could happen here," he acknowledged during a telephone interview even as the global community continued to mourn, "We always think it might happen in Israel, in Russia, in some third world country, somewhere where it's not our home".
And in Montgomery County, as the year ended, Adi Najjar continued to mourn and miss his only child — killed in June mere hours before he was scheduled to walk across a stage for his high school commencement.
The ZCTF said on Tuesday that it continued to mourn Cecil.
And as in Newtown, all of these people have continued to mourn, regret, reflect on and agonize over the deaths as their first anniversaries have come and gone.
The cancellations came as Britain continued to mourn the dead, with moments of silence and memorial services in schools, town squares and other sites.
Nascar Nation continued to mourn Earnhardt, who died two weeks ago in a last-lap crash at the Daytona 500, with emotional tributes before today's UAW-DaimlerChrysler 400.
At Buell people continued to mourn for Kayla, a shy little girl who loved Barbie dolls, prayed before eating lunch and dreamed of becoming a doctor.
The community continued to mourn the city's wound and its own loss: dozens of young Chinese-Americans died in the attack.
But the student writers have also continued to mourn their classmates and teachers, a process that has turned ordinary school activities – like publishing a student magazine – into acts of remembrance.
