Sentence examples for we were commemorating from inspiring English sources

The most powerful conversation I've had about this was with a mother who said to me at the Staffordshire Arboretum, when we were commemorating the Bastion memorial wall for Afghanistan, was just: 'You know, it's the parents and the families who want answers'".

What's the miracle we're commemorating?" "I don't know".

"We're commemorating rappers who are part of our city's history," Shelowitz said.

So that's what we are commemorating: The "I Have a Dream" speech, of course, but also an exercise in applied theology.

Martin Murray London SW2   At the rate things are going the Chilcot report won't be published by the time we are commemorating the 300th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo.

Ruth Karnac Ruislip, Middlesex Isn't it ironic that Stuart Rose should appeal to our patriotism as a way of getting us to vote to stay in the European Union (We're the patriots, Rose to tell pro-EU campaign launch, 12 October) on the very day that we are commemorating Edith Cavell, who said as she was led to her execution by the Germans in 1915 that "patriotism is not enough" (Report, 12 October).

One could make the case we are commemorating its history-making achievement of voting in like-minded school board members.

Let's remember that the official name of the event we are commemorating is the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.

During the month of May, we are commemorating National Military Appreciation Month in this country by honoring past and present members of the U.S. Armed Forces.

In honor of MJB's upcoming birthday, we're commemorating her most memorable (and often hilarious) two-steps throughout the years.

"We let people know why we're closing and why we're commemorating the Armenian genocide that happened 100 years ago so that people, the ones that don't know about it, they'll read about it," he said.