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Rallies by white supremacists, wearing white hoods and clasping torches, roused uncomfortable memories of the United States’ past. Missile launches by North Korea brought angst that nuclear war was nearing. “People have really been bound together following this tragedy,” he said.Ī deadly chemical attack in Syria stirred people around the globe. Some 1,000 people volunteered to help with his project, putting aside personal or political differences to work hand in hand. Jay Pleggenkuhle, a 52-year-old landscaper, helped create a memorial garden with a tree for each of the victims. In Las Vegas, too, where 58 people were fatally shot at a music festival, some searched for optimism in the face of savagery. “Rather than choose darkness as that young man did that day, we choose life,” he said in an emotional service only a week after the rampage. Pomeroy leads the rural church where a gunman killed 25 parishioners, his own 14-year-old daughter among them. In Texas, Pastor Frank Pomeroy vowed that good would persevere over evil. That kind of resilience was mustered again and again, even by some of those marked by some of the year’s biggest tragedies. “We have to live with it,” he said, “but keep living as we always have.” Bone is at once realistic and defiant, saying crowded places may make him think about his safety but won’t deter him from outings. “It can happen anywhere as long as there is one man willing to die,” said Luis Antonio Bone, 66, of Barcelona, who is retired from a cement factory job. Terrorism and other violence struck so regularly that many accepted it as a fact of life. The joy of the holiday dissolved into a scene of heartbreak outside the city morgue, where some cried and fell to the ground as they learned of a loved one’s fate.Īround the world this year, vehicles were made into weapons, with trucks, cars and vans plowing down people on the Westminster and London bridges in Britain in Times Square and on a Manhattan bike path on a major shopping street in the Swedish capital of Stockholm on the historic La Rambla in Barcelona. Just after the new year dawned in Istanbul, a gunman killed 39 people at a nightclub and wounded scores more. In retrospect, 2017′s destiny seemed sealed in its opening moments. The year, she said, boiled down to “disruption, despair and dumpster fires.” “Every time I turn off a device, I feel like I have anxiety because I’m not tracking the news.” “It’s almost like one of those horror rides at the amusement park where every time it heads into the next segment it gets worse,” said noted trendspotter Marian Salzman. The volatile year 2017 shook us so much and so often it felt like whiplash or worse, and that’s without even considering Donald Trump, at the center of so much of the turmoil.