And President George Bush's plans to try "enemy combatants" in military tribunals, with their lower standards than civilian courts, were bringing back memories of the air-force hearing that had condemned the young Mr Radulovich.
Alzheimers is a disease that takes the story of your life and throws the pages of memory up in the air.
As the 70th anniversary of D-Day approaches, a "last chance" search is under way to find and record the scattered vestiges and fading memories of the largest air armada ever assembled – before decay, demolition and redevelopment remove the final traces.
Massacres of the Kurds by successive Iraqi governments were left unmentioned, but their memory charged the air in the hall.
No debate about the meaning of memoirs and memory will clear the air around James Frey, the author of "A Million Little Pieces," and his publisher, Nan Talese of Doubleday.
The path through the tunnel is dark and claustrophobic and all memory of fresh air quickly disappears.
This evening, overflowing the plaza where Mr. Rabin was murdered by a Jewish extremist, more than 100,000 Israelis froze in silent memory of the three gunshots that pierced the air on that traumatic Saturday night in 1995.
Why, the memory of the daredevil Queen, hurtling down through the air to launch the Games.
There is technology among the charcoal burners and there is the memory of wonders – ships in the air and pictures in the sky – but there is absolutely nothing that might be called the scientific method.
Take this dining room: "chilly and transitional: papered olive-green, with doors at either end and a serving hatch, African violets on the windowsill, a memory of stale gravy in the air".
There were a few standouts, to be sure — the memory of being lifted into the air and carried on a gurney, after he'd badly sprained his ankle on the basketball court, and noticing how far away the ceiling of the gym appeared, and the menacing pattern of the rafters — but, in terms of day-to-day twelve-year-old feelings, he had, strangely, lost access.
