41. At midnight, church bells toll to announce the opening of the cemeteries and the opening to the other world. 42. At dawn, the church bells drive him off and the spirits return to their graves. 43. A church bell slowly rang, and the strains of bagpipes sounded in the distance. 44. A church bell tolls on a sunlit afternoon in Siena, in Tuscany. 45. Across the nation, church bells tolled and people stopped what they were doing to pause in moments of silence in remembrance of the victims. 46. Bronze was cast as church bells for centuries before it was used for cannons. 47. Bursts of gunfire sounded as often and as routinely as church bells. 48. But the church bells remained silent. 49. But their alarms, broadcast through ringing church bells, blaring sound trucks and radio and television broadcasts, generally went unheeded. 50. Church bells peeled and marching bands played the tomahawk chop as the Braves rode by. |