You have never seen someone weep until you have witnessed a mother at the funeral of her murdered child.

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Rourke recently directed her first production at the National theatre - Men Should Weep - and is soon to begin work on the West End production of Much Ado about Nothing starring Catherine Tate and David Tennant.

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When I hold my Father's medals, or visit him where he rests at Fort Rosecrans, and see row after row after row of white crosses, I weep for this greatest generation, who sacrificed everything, without a second thought, to give us freedom.

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We managed to get in touch with the civilian internees at Stanley and there were reunion scenes between husbands and wives and children, which nearly made one weep.

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Yet at the same time, his breathtaking voice and guitar work are beautiful enough to make me want to weep.

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