A national day -- or week -- of mourning seems a proper tribute, with solemn marches through each community.
Once, Memorial Day was a fairly solemn occasion when local communities lowered the courthouse flag to half-mast in salute to the "fallen", with jamboree parades to follow.
The form and content of the divine office were fixed in the Roman rite by the 7th century and in Carolingian Europe by the 10th; the office was celebrated by communities in solemn form requiring many ministers using several books.
The "full faith and taxing power" of communities, a solemn pledge, was being used to guarantee revenue bonds for nonessentials like solar-power projects, apartment buildings and a soccer stadium — things bailout-weary taxpayers might walk away from if the guarantees were called.
Following the 8 January 2011 rampage in Tucson, Arizona by a lone gunman who killed six and injured thirteen, President Obama drew a solemn veil over a national "community in mourning" with respect to the victims of the massacre.
People frequently confuse serious with solemn – working together with energetic members of your community can be serious fun.
Such a backlash is not to be taken lightly; the Salman Rushdie affair is a solemn reminder of the power of an angry Muslim community.
But in fulfilling this solemn commitment, they need support -- not only from parents and communities, but also from non-governmental and community-based organisations, including religious institutions.
The bombing came the day before the start of Jewish holiday Yom Kippur, the solemn Day of Atonement made unspeakably sad for the tightknit community at the base of the tree-covered hills just east of Haifa.
Following a solemn circumcision ritual, a boy abandons childhood and withdraws with a community of age-mates to the remote bush.
