Night Watch On The National Mall

The Hartford Courant ^ | June 11, 2004 | JANICE D'ARCY

[MadIvan]

WASHINGTON -- They met at midnight under clear moonlit skies, strangers standing on a patch of foot-worn grass.

There were cattlemen from Texas, soldiers from Virginia, two nuns, two interns in party dresses, a college kid from Delaware wearing a handmade tribute T-shirt. Three suit-and-tie Republicans from Connecticut waited with a child from Washington too young to know why he was there and a Nicaraguan man from California who said it was the least he could do.

[MadIvan]

This must have hurt for the Courant to write this...but note the characteristic of these thousands and thousands of people, that which is shared here, a feeling of genuine love for the Great Man. Surely wherever he is, he is touched. One can almost imagine him saying in thanks, eyes tearing up, "God bless America."

Regards, Ivan

In memoriam

[MadIvan]

Ping!

[ambrose]

they keep coming... nonstop... on CSPAN right now...

[MEG33]

Thank you ,Ivan....I am so happy you are back to share this with us.

[Mo1]

Thank you for the ping

[GVnana]

You should've heard the news commentator's this evening as Reagan's body was moved from Pt. Mugu Naval Station to the Reagan Library. They were astonished that the opposing traffic on Interstate 101 came to a complete standstill as people simply parked their cars on the middle of the freeway, during rush hour, got out and waited while the motocade passed. It was quite a sight. Quite a good-bye.