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(The Olympian) Pfc. Anthony J. Sausto liked listening to the band Green Day and watching movies starring Adam Sandler. The Fort Lewis soldier wanted to have children someday. Sausto was killed May 10 by small-arms fire in Baghdad, but many personal details and his photograph live on at his MySpace.com profile.
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(The New York Times) Something that would have been thought surreal not too long ago is happening. With the popularity of creamation on the rise, cash strapped cemeteries are seeking alternative revenue streams. Many have begun ‘events’ like this one in Troy, New York, where dinner is served to weekend tourists. Others have begun bird watching lectures, cconcerts and of course, Hallowe’en Parties.
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(Toronto Star) While school-sanctioned grief counsellors were brought into C.W. Jefferys Collegiate Institute to help students cope with Wednesday’s tragedy, many opted instead to express their emotions through Facebook and text messaging, avenues not controlled by parents or teachers. Within a few hours of the shooting of Grade 9 student Jordan Manners, an outpouring of shock, anger and sadness were posted on the Facebook social networking website. Last night’s candlelight vigil was organized quickly and entirely online by students and friends yesterday morning.
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In our village there are a few book clubs. I like to think of them as a continuum of clubs. Some tending to the cerebral - meeting at the library mid week for two hours with scripted questions, others to the not so cerebral. I belong to the latter kind.
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(Market Wire) Soldier Services Inc., a company operated by 14 active duty and retired military Service Members, is launching the new Soldier Memorial Network an online memorial site for Service Members. The Soldier Memorial Network is a new website that offers Family members and friends of deceased Service Members a place to create an online memorial in honor of the deceased Service Member. Each memorial has a separate web page that can be easily customized by the creator with pictures, eulogy, music, blog and much more.
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