"Americans, in foreign policy, are torn," writes Robert Kagan, an American historian.
The scene inside the plaza suggested a high-school graduation: young people embracing in tears, writing telephone numbers on scraps of paper, inscribing memorial messages in calendar books.
"I'm almost in tears writing this, why?
In fact, I am literally bored to tears writing this, like I am seriously crying here in my local coffee shop and everyone is looking at me weird and I just want to show them this press release so they'll understand or something.
I'm in tears writing this because I know it's not going to be the last time.
There were a few tears," writes Becky_YNWA, while begarrity opines: "Just got back from watching toy story 3 with @jadebryan.
"Looking at Steve Smith's face reminds me of a small boy constantly on the verge of bursting into tears," writes Phil Withall.
"There's a terrible zinger about the Def Leppard drummer and Thierry Henry that Irish football supporters tell themselves as they're drowning in their own tears," writes Donald Mahoney, aka The Weaver.
"Jefferson appears both as the scholarly admirer of Indian character, archaeology and language, and the planner of cultural genocide, the architect of the removal policy, the surveyor of the Trail of Tears," wrote the historian Anthony F. C. Wallace, in his book, "Jefferson and the Indians: the Tragic Fate of the First Americans.
"Almost in tears," wrote another.
