If, however, it is not the manner of the honor student's death but the example of his life that inspires the class, if he is held in abiding affection, then it is reasonable to single him out for remembrance.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson even tweeted out a remembrance of Hefner on Thursday morning, calling him a "strong supporter of the civil rights movement".
Although we do not speak of it directly, Leslie Jordan and I comprehend the need to map the collective traumas wrought by HIV that pepper our history and to squeeze every bit of value out of remembrance that we can for the sake of posterity.
He even trotted out some remembrances, recalling that in hunting with his cousins as a teenager, he struggled to kill rabbits with a single-shot.22-caliber rifle.
Veterans' groups are also largely in favor of the trip, though officials of some organizations, including the American Legion, have expressed fears that Mr. Clinton's economic message will drown out his remembrances of the American casualties.
His memoir is a raucous, laugh-out-loud remembrance of the many strange, sometimes criminally minded vendors who operated carts under Strahan's supervision.
But no matter how many pentagrams they stick in their ears or how many Slayer patches they sew on their arms, they won't be able to out-pagan, out-heresy and out-blaspheme the Shrine of Remembrance up the road, the holiest place in the State.
The angry protesters, wearing T-shirts and badges emblazoned with furry images of their dead hero, have turned the entrance of Berlin Zoo into a shrine of remembrance decked out with candles, photographs, and flowers.
Similar scenes of remembrance played out across the country – in a show of emotion not seen since the 1937 funeral of Tomas Garrigue Masaryk, Czechoslovakia's first president after the nation was founded in 1918.
He wrote those words in a book that is a meditation on remembrance, "Out of Fire and Valor: The War Memorials of New York City From the Revolution to 9-11" (Bunker Hill Publishing, 2005)."War," Mr. Snyder said, "is our most terrible and exalted deed".
