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* [[Pets (TV)/And Animals/Tear Jerker|Pets]]

* [[War (Film)/Tear Jerker|War]]

* Susan Boyle appeared on ''Britain's Got Talent 2009'' to jeering from the audience. She then proceeded to sing "I Dreamed A Dream" from ''[[Les Misérables (Theatretheatre)|Les Misérables]]'' so beautifully that the entire theatre gave her a standing ovation. It's made even more poignant when you take into consideration how her life has unfolded up to this point. It can be seen [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxPZh4AnWyk here].

* Apple fanboy [[Stephen Fry]]'s article on the iPad ends by saying that the only thing he regrets is that fellow Apple fanboy [[Douglas Adams]] isn't alive to see "the closest thing to [[The HitchhikersHitchhiker's Guide to Thethe Galaxy|The Guide]] man has yet produced".

** ''It is September 11th, 2011. I am speaking to those of my generation , those who began life in the late 20th century, and saw, through the eyes of a child, the beginnings of a new millennia. We saw 9/11. Our parents sent us to play in another room, and we walked away, wondering why they had tears in their eyes, what we had seen on the screen that we so often watched a yellow sponge prancing around on, what was throwing up those pillars of blackest smoke and flickering fire so huge our minds could not comprehend their size, so young were we. And even when we learned what it was, the wreckage of two skyscrapers who bad men had flown planes into, we did not realize until later: we had been attacked. As clearly as Pearl Harbor so many years before, we had been attacked. But what was Pearl Harbor to us? Something of the past, something we hardly thought about, something, even now, we regard as just another set of facts we have to slave over for our history tests. This is the bottom of the Tearjerker page. Look up at all the entries recorded. We don't have Phoebe Prince in our history books. Nor the girl who got to watch [[Up (Filmanimation)|Up]] right before she died of cancer. Nor Genie, the feral child. Nor the too many other personal instances of tragedy: suicide, kidnappings, torture, murder. No, we have World War [[World War I|I]] and [[World War II|II]], George Washington, Martin Luther King. What do they mean to us, though? Only facts to be forgotten when we get that A or B. '''That''' is a tearjerker: we have forgotten our past. So many things newsworthy in our time will be forgotten in the wake of tomorrow's news. Our children will forget Columbine, because they'll have their own school shootings. They'll forget 9/11, because they'll have their own wars. So, to those of my generation, I have a favor to ask: '''Never Forget'''. Keep your own history books. Remember those you have lost. Tell your children of that guy in 10th grade, who was killed by a drunk driver. Of your cousin, who died fighting terrorists in a faraway country. Of 9/11, the greatest tragedy of ''our'' childhood. Teach them of the pain, the sorrow, the loss. '''But'''... but, my friends, most of all, most ''imperative'' of all, teach them of what we learned from those tragedies. From your friend, don't drink and drive. From your cousin, that dying to protect one's family and friends may be the greatest sacrifice of all. And from 9/11... that, when the stone and metal that we have built up in our lifetime comes crashing down as molten rain, when the blood of our friends and family flows through the streets, and the cries of the mourners echo on every block, '''that''' is when we pick each other up, and, not as Americans, but as good humans who wish to see an end to war and death, and we stand, shoulder to shoulder, and face the twisting, black storm before us, not with hesitation or fear, but with squared jaws and clenched fists, and we shout out in one voice, brothers and sisters, children of God, to those who would tear us apart, "'''Our light will not be extinguished!'''". And then it will be ''them'' who quake with fear, who hide in their holes and avert their eyes from the glory and strength of those who march into the fight armed with love, honor, and memory. So I ask you: remember. Remember this page. Remember every page. Remember every friend. Remember every life. Because, as surely as the sun will set, there will be another 9/11, another school shooting... another World War. So do not let our children go unprepared to face that same storm. Because that would end in the worst tearjerker imaginable.''