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"The idea that a mother and father might be out there praying over a headstone over a grave that may not contain the remains of their kid is pretty hard core. I have seen wives and girlfriends in the cemetery literally hugging those headstones ... The burial errors are spread ... through many different eras of time, and the record-keeping has essentially not changed since the Civil War."

--6/14/10

Bret Stephens

On the one-year anniversary of Iran's postelection protests, in the Wall Street Journal:

"The regime is more emboldened than ever ... Worst of all, the Green movement is, if not extinguished completely, little more than a flickering ember. The 3 million Iranians who marched for freedom last June may have to wait another generation for a similar opportunity."

--6/15/10

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