One year comprises 525,960 minutes (60 minutes/hour x 24 hours/day x 365.25 days/year), so 6 million minutes (one for each Holocaust victim) divided by 525,960 minutes (the number of minutes in a ...

Let's for the moment set aside the gun debate — as well as the religious debate over the moment of silence, which some church-going Americans still view as a poor substitute for prayer in public.

A moment of silence is an important shared cultural ritual. It’s certainly no time to stand there with some big goofy grin on your face, looking like an idiot. Unless, of course, you’re a ...

President Obama led the nation in a moment of silence today at 11 a.m. ET to honor those injured and killed in Saturday's mass shooting, which has left Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in critical ...