So now we rise, shunning tears, biting back trembling lips and stifling sobs of grief... and we walk, shoulder to shoulder... to the Call of Duty, in tribute to the Fallen.
The commission has been characterised by back-biting and point-scoring, and has achieved nothing.
Not long ago, the Red Sox were a team of irresistible scruff-balls, now there is back-biting and snippiness and the acrid vapors of high expectations failing to be met.
Ford has also become a more open and collaborative place during his tenure, a change from its previous internal culture of "empire building and back-biting, " Executive Chairman Bill Ford said earlier this month.
In the event, for all the nastiness, buck-passing and back-biting this mass of material exposes, it only reinforces Mr Pollard's conclusions: that the BBC's lines of accountability were deeply flawed and that members of its lavishly paid and top-heavy management saw it as their priority, in a crisis, to flunk responsibility rather than take it.
Germany, however, had to endure a nail-biting finale after Helder Postiga pulled one back for Portugal after 87 minutes.
After 5 days of focused skiing in New Hampshire, through a variety of terrains and weather conditions (from bright blue skies and pristine groomed slopes, to rising snow swirls and biting winds amidst daunting moguls) my family trooped back home sore but contented.
It was music that was bluesy with a cool, laid-back swing, coming from a polite Southern gentleman who had a sharp, biting wit.
Alas, all thoughts of successive Grand Slams bit the dust in the biting cold of the Stade de France, but Ireland at least got their championship bid back on track with a stirring win over England.
Wales face Italy in the Millennium Stadium next and there will be some nail-biting as the players wait to see if they have done enough to keep the red shirt on their back.
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