WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 00:00:00.840 --> 00:00:06.710 align:start position:0% [Music] we now mark a milestone that none of us conceived of when we first started to take collective action to bend the curve two years of living with adjusting to overcoming covid19 and in those two years we have lost 318 arlingtonians to this virus there are parents and children and spouses and friends throughout this community mourning the loss of someone important to them to this virus and for so many months of the pandemic all of the collective rituals that bring us together to ease the pain of loss have also been denied to us arlington is a melting pot of cultures and religions all of which have some sort of tradition of coming together in times of loss and too few of those have been available to us during the pandemic the comfort of a funeral in which we hear prayers that are centuries old the comfort of a wake in which stories and memories are shared the comfort of shiva in which our homes are opened to neighbors and the memories that they bring with them and so we are gathering now collectively literally metaphorically but always together to acknowledge and to honor the lives of those 318 arlingtonians not because of the way in which those lives were lost but because of the spectacular way in which those lives were lived we remember the neighbor who always remembered the names of all the dogs on the block the colleague with the most unforgettable laugh the patient who had the best stories about their great grandchildren we are gathering once again so that we can remember everything that they did to enrich our community and the ways that their memories will be a blessing to us in arlington county [Music] you 00:00:06.710 --> 00:00:09.110 align:start position:0% [Music] we now mark a milestone that none of us conceived of when we first started to take collective action to bend the curve two years of living with adjusting to overcoming covid19 and in those two years we have lost 318 arlingtonians to this virus there are parents and children and spouses and friends throughout this community mourning the loss of someone important to them to this virus and for so many months of the pandemic all of the collective rituals that bring us together to ease the pain of loss have also been denied to us arlington is a melting pot of cultures and religions all of which have some sort of tradition of coming together in times of loss and too few of those have been available to us during the pandemic the comfort of a funeral in which we hear prayers that are centuries old the comfort of a wake in which stories and memories are shared the comfort of shiva in which our homes are opened to neighbors and the memories that they bring with them and so we are gathering now collectively literally metaphorically but always together to acknowledge and to honor the lives of those 318 arlingtonians not because of the way in which those lives were lost but because of the spectacular way in which those lives were lived we remember the neighbor who always remembered the names of all the dogs on the block the colleague with the most unforgettable laugh the patient who had the best stories about their great grandchildren we are gathering once again so that we can remember everything that they did to enrich our community and the ways that their memories will be a blessing to us in arlington county [Music] you 00:00:09.110 --> 00:00:10.709 align:start position:0% 00:00:10.709 --> 00:00:13.350 align:start position:0% 00:00:13.350 --> 00:00:16.550 align:start position:0% 00:00:16.550 --> 00:00:18.710 align:start position:0% 00:00:18.710 --> 00:00:21.070 align:start position:0% 00:00:21.070 --> 00:00:24.550 align:start position:0% 00:00:24.550 --> 00:00:26.710 align:start position:0% 00:00:26.710 --> 00:00:28.470 align:start position:0% 00:00:28.470 --> 00:00:30.870 align:start position:0% 00:00:30.870 --> 00:00:33.910 align:start position:0% 00:00:33.910 --> 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