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Example sentences for: commemoration

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As you will recall, I make a partial exception for certain forms of religious (or civic-religious) commemoration at the very beginning of my chapter on "lessons": "Remembering the Holocaust, especially for Jews, needs no pragmatic justification.
In commemoration of the 600 th anniversary of the great battle, in 1989 Lazar's bones were taken for a tour around Serbia and Bosnia, from monastery to monastery.
George Bush, Mikhail Gorbachev, and Helmut Kohl participated in the commemoration.
Recalling that only one member of Netanyahu's government--former Soviet dissident Nathan Sharansky--attended last year's commemoration of Rabin, it expressed hope that the prime minister would attend this year's ceremonies.
Readers are invited to nominate events suitable for commemoration in Chatterbox's "year in review" item, which Chatterbox would like to post before Thanksgiving (in order to beat all the various century/millennium/decade-in-review surveys).