As a proud soon-to-be Coast Guard sister, I was very pleased to see Coasties carrying the casket and serving as honor guards along with the other services.
My brother was born towards the end of the Reagan administration - I myself was born only a month after his first Inauguration. Neither of us knew a world without him as our President.
You must be about the same age as my youngest daughter! She was born at the end of March of that year. In fact, I was getting ready to go home from the hospital when the assasination attempt happened! I saw people running down the hall to the waiting area where there was a tv. It was a frightening time in the middle of an otherwise joyous time! Thankfully, he survived and pulled through!