Seeing it all unfold so quickly -- along with the rousing music -- we're not going to lie, we got a little lump in our throats.

ENGADGET: Alt-week 7.21.12: Outer space, flying hotels and federal trolls

It was in our eyes and in our throats...

BBC: 9/11 defined the past decade for the US and Europe

When there is no way of knowing exactly how long our skeins will run and when we imagine ourselves to have much more time than we do our every impulse is to fight, to die with chemo in our veins or a tube in our throats or fresh sutures in our flesh.

NEWYORKER: Letting Go

The tragic events of yesterday, eleven years ago, froze the breath in all our throats.

FORBES: The Day After 9/11

We tried it once, and they were at our throats in 20 years.

NPR: Listening In On the Nuremberg Trials

In this, his most Chekhovian of pieces, Sondheim shoves our own mortality down our throats.

NEWYORKER: Diamonds and Rust