The White House posted 2,977 names on Friday. [1] This paper printed the list as Friday's. Saturday has no second roll. A recap is not a new memorial. Print 2,977 as Friday's. Do not print a new name count.

No Saturday addendum is in the White House stack, so 2,977 remains Friday's number and not a rewritten death toll.
Saturday recap that treats the roll as a new finding is a feed, not Friday's post.
No second name list is in Saturday's Washington copy.
The paper revisits this story when a named 2,978th name exists.
Friday already named the 2,977.

Saturday is not a second memorial roll.
Print 2,977 as Friday's number.
The roll remains Friday's named list. Memorial language repeats because grief does. Saturday's proclamation echoes Friday's.
Rolls read aloud yearly don't change; 2,977 is a fixed point. Saturday adds no 2,978th name. The number stands as Friday left it.

Fixed points hold; Saturday holds one. Holding is remembrance. Echoes repeat grief.

Repeated grief doesn't add a name; Saturday adds none. 2,977 stays Friday's roll. Echoes are the memorial.

Rolls read aloud yearly don't change. Saturday adds no 2,978th name. 2,977 stands as Friday left it.

Friday's 2,977 names remain Friday's posted list. Washington issued no Saturday addendum and no 2,978th line. Recapping a roll is not posting a new one. Grief that repeats itself is still not a second memorial.
Saturday adds no 2,978th name. 2,977 stands as Friday left it. Yearly don't change.

Saturday adds no 2,978th name. 2,977 stands as Friday left it. Yearly don't change.

Saturday adds no 2,978th name. 2,977 stands as Friday left it. Yearly don't change.

-- SAMUEL CRANE, Washington