[[link removed]] Lament: A Day to Mourn [[link removed]] Jim WallisLament
[luh-ment]

verb:
to feel, show, or express grief, sorrow, or regret.
to mourn deeply

noun:
a crying out in grief: wailing

As we pass the horrifying milestone of 100,000 American deaths to the
coronavirus, we're using the hashtag #Lament100k to urge people to pause — to
lament. Of course, the sentiment falls short. As a friend said to me, we can’t
abbreviate all these lives; we have to try to feel all one hundred thousand of
them.

One hundred thousand neighbors, friends, and family is 500 plane crashes with
200 passengers on board each one (there have only been 33 airplane crashes with
200 or more fatalities in world history), 33 times the number of deaths on 9/11,
two sold-out baseball stadiums, 25 filled National Cathedrals, nearly the number
of U.S. soldiers killed in World War I, and almost 15 times the number of U.S.
soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan combined. If a COVID-19 memorial were
built today and no one else in the U.S. died from the virus, it would need to be
almost twice the length of the Vietnam War Memorial wall to fit the names of all
those our nation has lost.

One hundred thousand people, neighbors, friends, and family — grandfathers and
grandmothers, fathers and mothers, aunts and uncles, brothers and sisters, sons
and daughters, even children — are now all dead from COVID-19.

It is a marker we must not pass by quickly or easily. We must stop. We must
weep. We must mourn. We must honor. And we must lament, which is to feel and
bear great grief and sorrow, and reflect upon it.

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