With the first anniversary of the national trauma little more than three weeks away, news organizations are gearing up.

As a national trauma, perhaps only the millions of pictures from Sept. 11, 2001, can compare.

Bonds's pursuit is a small part of a massive first-aid kit for our national trauma.

And how can this recent national trauma be faced and dealt with?

That alone is a matter of national trauma.

The work, it explained, "asks about the relationship between national trauma and the understanding of images."

But even some leading human rights advocates expressed concern that an official holiday would end up trivializing what is still a national trauma.

Clinton's speech was a textbook illustration of how to use a national trauma to reframe an issue.

The previous weekend, in the year's first concert, the theme was the United States' recent national trauma and recovery.

This time of national trauma is not the moment to rewrite American law.