{"id":766,"date":"2009-09-11T08:57:10","date_gmt":"2009-09-11T06:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ofcourseimright.com\/?p=766"},"modified":"2009-09-11T11:10:51","modified_gmt":"2009-09-11T09:10:51","slug":"grant-us-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/?p=766","title":{"rendered":"Grant Us Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I suspect we Americans all have very different emotions.\u00a0 Rather than express mine in my usual verbose way, I’ll simply write two things: my thoughts are with my cousins who lost a father, a brother, and a spouse eight years ago this day.\u00a0 Their grief is only compounded this week with another loss last week.\u00a0 My thoughts are with them.\u00a0 They’re also with my aunt who lost her closest friend, and with my brother and sister who bore witness, and all those suffered losses.<\/p>\n

I’ll also just mention some of today’s play list (if you can figure out what most of these songs have to do with this day, you probably are or should be a shrink):<\/p>\n