Kenneth Quinn, a lawyer who represents the company, said the closing was "another sad and tragic chapter of the Valujet crash."

He was described by some to be now in a final tragic chapter of his legend-in-progress.

A further excursion to the Killing Fields and Genocide Museum provides a moving insight into the most tragic chapter in the country's history.

One of the men, Herman Shaw, introduced the President and said the day closed "this very tragic and painful chapter in our lives."

Preventing that kind of tragic last chapter is the only rational argument for continuing the American presence in Iraq.

It is fitting that we should remember that tragic chapter in the history of both our countries.

"It is the Salvadoran people who are the great victors of the end to this tragic chapter in our history," he said.

After the war Gowon said, "The tragic chapter of violence is just ended.

It concludes, "The sun and winds wrote the most tragic chapter in American agriculture."

This will help Serbia to close the tragic chapter of history over which Milosevic presided and to come to terms with the legacy of its past.