Mr. Bush's presidency and his prospects for re-election have become largely defined by the war in Iraq, which will be his main topic when he delivers a graduation address at the Air Force Academy on Wednesday and again on Sunday when he commemorates the 60th anniversary of D-Day at the American Cemetery in Normandy.
White House officials have decided that President Obama will not use the word "genocide" to describe the killings of more than 1 million Armenians at the hands of Ottoman Turks when he commemorates the deaths Friday, the 100th anniversary of the massacres.
Whatever his technical problems in the past, though, his playing was in fine shape on the evening of Feb. 10 when he commemorated the 50th anniversary of his Carnegie Hall debut with a recital on the same stage.
The idea for the stolpersteine emerged when he was commemorating the deportation of 1,000 Gypsies from Cologne by painting a white line through the city, showing where decades earlier they had been chased through the streets to the train station.
There is a notorious and baffling phrase of Donne's, in "The Second Anniversary," when he is commemorating "the Religious death of Mistress Elizabeth Drury," who was, he says, "richly and largely hous'd": Her pure, and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one might almost say, her body thought.
He's spending the holiday weekend in Chicago when he should be commemorating Memorial Day here with the families of troops killed in battle and with veterans at Arlington Cemetery.
Page A14 A TRAGIC BOON FOR SKITTLES Many people are buying Skittles, the candy Trayvon Martin was carrying when he was killed, to commemorate his death, putting the company that makes them in a delicate position.
Yet it was "The Wolf Man" that was honored with a stamp by the United States Post Office three years ago, and it was that movie Mr. Siodmak chose to commemorate when he picked the title for his autobiography, "Wolf Man's Maker: Memoir of a Hollywood Writer," to be published by Scarecrow Press next month.
Even when they commemorate tragedies like the great Irish famine, memorials could be our way of grieving over the "perpetual war for perpetual peace" that still shadows us at home.
Once the lunch hour is over, the inmates resume their preparations for Holy Week, the most important festival for the indigenous people of Chihuahua, when they commemorate Christ's death and resurrection.
Earlier in the summer, Kim walked with a pronounced limp when he appeared at a ceremony commemorating the death of his grandfather.
